Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.

“Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.” is a core task performed by Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 23rd by importance (#8 most important). About 87% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Position materials or components for assembly. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Clean and polish metal items and jewelry pieces, using jewelers' tools, polishing wheels, and chemical baths. · importance 4.5
• Smooth soldered joints and rough spots, using hand files and emery paper, and polish smoothed areas with polishing wheels or buffing wire. · importance 4.5
• Create jewelry from materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and precious or semiprecious stones. · importance 4.5
• Cut and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets. · importance 4.4
• Examine assembled or finished products to ensure conformance to specifications, using magnifying glasses or precision measuring instruments. · importance 4.4
• Make repairs, such as enlarging or reducing ring sizes, soldering pieces of jewelry together, and replacing broken clasps and mountings. · importance 4.4
• Compute costs of labor and materials in order to determine production costs of products and articles. · importance 4.3
• Grade stones based on their color, perfection, and quality of cut. · importance 4.3
• Select and acquire metals and gems for designs. · importance 4.2
• Buy and sell jewelry, or serve as agents between buyers and sellers. · importance 4.2
• Shape and straighten damaged or twisted articles by hand or using pliers. · importance 4.2
• Determine appraised values of diamonds and other gemstones based on price guides, market fluctuations, and stone grades and rarity. · importance 4.2
• Create new jewelry designs and modify existing designs, using computers as necessary. · importance 3.9
• Plate articles such as jewelry pieces and watch dials, using silver, gold, nickel, or other metals. · importance 3.9

See all tasks on the Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-23620,
  title  = {Position stones and metal pieces, and set, mount, and secure items in place, using setting and hand tools.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-23620}
}