Signet Jewelers

Retailer of diamond jewelry and financing

Production Watchmaker

Precision Machining & ToolmakingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeBrentwood, TN, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

One to two years of watchmaking experience.
Ability to perform intermediate watch repairs.
Ability to use specialized watchmaking tools.
Ability to maintain strong quality, precision, and productivity standards in a fast-paced repair environment.

Responsibilities

Accurately shape and fit watch crystals using crystal cutters, ensuring precise alignment and finish.
Perform detail polishing with a flex shaft to achieve a high-quality finish on intricate components.
Operate large polishing motors for comprehensive watch case and bracelet polishing.
Change circuits and coils in quartz watches to ensure proper functionality and performance.
Replace date wheels with precision, ensuring correct alignment and operation.
Reset loose dial markers, date boxes, or logos while preserving aesthetic integrity and functionality.
Replace stems, crowns, and case tubes, and perform pressure tests to verify water resistance.
Use a timing machine to regulate automatic and mechanical movements for accurate timekeeping.
Identify and install the correct movement for retrofitting, ensuring compatibility and functionality.
Replace perpetual calendar movements, ensuring seamless integration and performance.
Replace cannon and hour pinions to ensure proper engagement and function.
Repair ceramic or tungsten watches with minimal damage while maintaining structural and aesthetic integrity.

The Watchmaker II/Production Watchmaker is a hands-on technical role for candidates with 1–2 years of watchmaking experience who can perform intermediate repairs, use specialized tools, and maintain strong quality, precision, and productivity standards in a fast-paced repair environment.

Crystal Cutting: Utilize crystal cutters to accurately shape and fit watch crystals, ensuring precise alignment and finish.

Detail Polishing: Use a flex shaft for detail polishing, achieving a high-quality finish on intricate components.

Polishing Motor: Operate large polishing motors for comprehensive watch case and bracelet polishing.

Quartz Watch Repairs: Change circuits and coils in quartz watches, ensuring proper functionality and performance.

Date Wheel Replacement: Replace date wheels with precision, ensuring correct alignment and operation.

Dial Repairs: Reset loose dial markers, date boxes, or logos, ensuring aesthetic integrity and functionality.

Stem, Crown, and Case Tube Replacement: Replace stems, crowns, and case tubes, performing pressure tests to verify water resistance.

Movement Regulation: Use a timing machine to regulate automatic and mechanical movements, ensuring accurate timekeeping.

Retro Fit Execution: Identify and install the correct movement for retrofitting, ensuring compatibility and functionality.

Perpetual Calendar Replacement: Replace perpetual calendar movements with expertise, ensuring seamless integration and performance.

Pinion Replacement: Change cannon and hour pinions, ensuring proper engagement and function.

Ceramic and Tungsten Repairs: Repair ceramic or tungsten watches with minimal damage, maintaining structural and aesthetic integrity.

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About the Company

Signet Jewelers

Retailer of diamond jewelry and financing

Signet Jewelers is the world’s largest retailer of diamond jewelry, offering brands like Kay Jewelers, Zales, Jared, H. Samuel, and Ernest Jones across the US, UK, and Canada. Customers shop through brick‑and‑mortar stores or online, choosing from diamond and fine jewelry and using financing options to pay over time. The business relies on its global supply chain from Africa and India and a unified customer experience across channels. Its goals are to expand stores and online channels, strengthen customer relationships, and advance sustainability and social equity through its products, financing, and philanthropic initiatives.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Akron, OH
Founded: 1910

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