Linden Cook is seeking a Senior Jewellery Designer with advanced capability across original jewellery design, concept development, sculptural design, prototyping and design for manufacture. The role is responsible for developing original jewellery concepts and carrying them through the complete design and development process, from initial creative direction and sketching through three-dimensional development, prototyping and final production approval. A particularly important capability within the role is the ability to design and create highly detailed miniature and sculptural forms in wax, enabling complex concepts to be developed physically at jewellery scale while retaining fine detail, proportion and character.
Key responsibilities
Developing original jewellery concepts and refining them into resolved designs
Producing sketches, specifications, models and prototypes
Defining form, proportion, scale, materials, construction and surface detail
Designing both conventional jewellery forms and highly detailed sculptural and miniature pieces
Translating concepts into three-dimensional forms,
including hand modelling and carving in jewellery wax
Developing and refining prototypes while assessing technical and manufacturing feasibility
Designing with an understanding of casting, assembly and finishing requirements
Collaborating with manufacturing to resolve design and production challenges
Managing designs from initial concept through to final production approval
About you
Robust creative design ability combined with practical manufacturing knowledge
Advanced skill in wax modelling, carving and miniature sculptural development
Ability to maintain accurate proportion, form and visual balance at very small scale
Understanding of casting, finishing and production requirements
Ability to move confidently between original design, sculptural and wax development, prototyping and production
Portfolio demonstrating original jewellery design, including examples of detailed sculptural and/or hand-developed wax work