Vintage Cash Cow
Fine Jewellery Product Assessor (2PM-10PM)
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Jewellery Product Assessor (Late Shift) – Vintage Cash Cow
Department: Marketplace
Location: Overland Park, Morley
Compensation: £26,250 – £28,000 per year (plus shift allowance)
About the Team
Vintage Cash Cow operates as a unique platform, allowing customers to sell their items quickly and conveniently. Our Overland Park hub serves as the heart of operations, combining the energy of a busy warehouse with the expertise of a diverse team dedicated to valuing and processing high-value items.
You’ll join our passionate Gold Team, which specialises in auctioning and trading gold, fine jewellery, and high-value vintage pieces. This multi-departmental collaboration ensures seamless movement of stock from initial valuation to auction.
Every box holds discovery—sometimes treasures hidden within worn-out design or sentimental worth within gems and gold. Working here means contributing to the thrilling journey of uncovering and preserving history-driven jewellery.
Working Pattern
- Shift Hours: 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Late Shift)
- Working Days: Monday to Friday
- Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours per week (plus 30 minutes unpaid break daily)
- Compensation: £26,250 + shift allowance
About The Role
As a Jewellery Product Assessor, you’ll play a pivotal role in assessing, processing, and preparing fine jewellery and precious metals for auction and trade sale. This is ideal for individuals with previous experience in:
- Retail jewellery (e.g., Pandora, high-street jewellers)
- Bench jewellery work
- Fine jewellery valuation/auction practices
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Your duties will include:
- Evaluating high-value antique, vintage, and collectible pieces
- Carefully breaking down jewellery, carefully removing stones and separating gold components
- Validating quality, purity, and origin using tools like XRF testing (training provided)
- Curating accurate, details-rich auction lots using proprietary tools
- Ensuring precision in submissions—weights, documentation, and compliance standards
Your collaborative approach will significantly impact inventory accuracy and auction performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess & catalogue high-value jewellery with precise identification of fine/collectible items.
- Dismantle & sort jewellery, separating solid gold scrap while extracting gemstones safely.
- Use XRF testing to accuracy determine metal purity, grading by carat, metal stamps.
- Weigh and package pure gold securely, adhering to strict security protocols.
- Create detailed auction lots meeting KPI targets, documenting material, values with accurate sales data.
- Maintain detailed records—weights, components, stock IDs—ensuring inventory accuracy.
- Participate in quality checks, reclaiming inaccuracies to guarantee security and regulations compliance.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Highly Desirable: ✅ Experience in retail or bench jewellery ✅ Ability to identify halmarks, carats, and metal purity visual cues ✅ Strong attention to detail, with Advanced focus on valuable items ✅ Confidence working with numbers, weights, and Excel/stock management systems
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Important (Trainable): ⚠ Familiarity with XRF machines for purity testing. ⚠ Foundation knowledge in vintage/antique appreciation and grading. ⚠ Experience applying security protocols for high-value assets.
Growing Your Career
- Develop tools and techniques such as XRF testing and jewellery breakdown.
- Learn essential processes to designate values, track components, and split lots.
- Become confident at provenance authenticity and heritage research.
Upon mastering bases, you’ll contribute significantly towards: ✔ Improving internal recording for recurring accuracy in valuations. ✔ Efficient workload adjustments to align with deadlines and KPIs. ✔ Suggesting innovative improvements to strengthen gold handling and auction prep workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive shift-adjusted salary £26,250–£28,000/year + intervening.
- Regular engagement with valuable and historically significant jewellery.
- Opportunities for progression within fine and auction sectors.
- Commitment to a diverse and respectful work culture.
Equal Opportunities
At Vintage Trading Limited, we support an inclusive workforce enabling diverse voices, backgrounds and ways of thinking.
Your unique contribution matters—even if you’re mid-transition, still building expertise or looking for your future career path, we're invested in your potential. Request accommodation or detail variances in our process, and we’ll do all we can to ease your involvement.
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