[Jewelry making - Article 00950] - [Orchid] [Honduras] Job Opportunities

[Merendon Jewellery]

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    To my fellow craftspersons,  I would like to introduce myself before
    posting the following employment oportunity.  

    I'm a Canadian Goldsmith who has recently moved to Honduras to direct
    the development of a new jewelry business operating under the
    auspices of a Canadian gold mining company.  I began my own career 28
    yrs ago with the late Canadian first nations artist Bill Reid at the
    age of fifteen. Under his guidance I entered into a traditional 4yr.
    appreticeship program with a high end Swiss jeweller on Canada's west
    coast and have been making strictly hand made jewelry in 18k, 19k
    white and platinum ever since.  Through my early association with
    Bill I have occassionaly throughout my career continued to produce
    works with other first nations artists as a technical resource and
    collaborator.  This association and my experience in producing larger
    Objet d Arte' in gold by traditional techniques has lead me to my
    present situation.  The parent company Merendon Mining and I
    established a mandate to develop a jewelry program in Honduras as a
    means of skills development and economic opportunity for this very
    poor country.  It is however extremely rich in great cultural
    traditions.  For example the Maya culture and Olmec which preceded
    Mayan settlement.  Merendon is a presently operating jewelry business
    with two stores in Honduras and a workshop employing 12 jewellers and
    two setters.  My involvement in the program is to provide oversight
    to the present workshop while the developement of a parallel workshop
    takes place.  The new workshop, in the same building has a mandate to
    produce the finest quality fine handmade jewelry.  Jewellers in
    addition to myself  to be recruited in N. America and Europe
    according to the specific skills we need.  In addition to producing
    jewelry we will also, in relationship with and with  exculsive and
    granted authority of the archeological institute of Honduras produce
    in gold, masterpieces of the Mayan culture.  Already, several
    qualified and specialized jewellers are making plans to join this
    project from Canada and Europe. 


    I have two distinct opportunities to post here. The first is
    immediate as follows; 

    We have an opening in the present workshop for a bilingual,
    (english-spanish speaking) Production Manager to oversee production
    and provide quality control to 12 jewelers and 2 setters.  We are
    looking for some one with a thorough knowledge of all basic
    manufacturing techniques and processes from waxing and casting, basic
    handmaking techniques, through setting and finishing.  A practical
    working knowledge of gemstones (diamonds and colored) an ability to
    assess design from a marketplace perspective and an ability to
    generate reports by computer are nescessary to the job.  A sense of
    adventure, and enjoying the people that you work with are desirable. 
    I am as the director keenly interested that the people who with a
    sense of adventure join me in this have an opportunity for a high
    level of personal and proffessional fulfilment and a structure with
    which they can achieve this.  Salary, incentives and benifits are
    negotiable based on experience. 

    For the workshop that is presently under developement.  In three to
    four months this workshop will be completed.  I'm informally putting
    the word out for goldsmiths, professional enamellists, and diamond
    setters.  I have worked for 28 yrs with a considerable degree of
    isolation from much of the trade. I've been asked by Merendon because
    of the skill that I have achieved working in this isolation to head
    up the developement of something that may be quite unique in the
    world at this moment.  I have been provided an open mandate to
    attract the finest specific skills ie; raising and forming engraving,
    assembly and working with local and historical resourses to create
    culturaly significant works in gold.  If you have significant skills
    to contribute or if you know of an outstanding jeweler, diamond
    setter, engraver please either respond  directly or let them know of
    the oportunity.  I am involved myself for two principal reasons. 
    I've been presented the opportunity to do something worthwhile and
    good in the world with the skills that I possess and that is to teach
    people who have a richness of culture but are very poor, skills for
    their own self expression and economic welfare. Not to mention to
    have a great adventure in a truly beautiful country (if you are into
    paragliding like me you will think you've gone to heaven).  Second,
    when I started my career with Bill Reid (and at the time I was very
    impressionable) we would talk about somebody walking across the
    desert two thousand years from now and stubbing there toe on
    something that you had made.  What we would want it to say to that
    person about our culture or what people thought or believed in. There
    are not many if any avenues for the skilled artists and craftspeople
    today to have the chance to work on pieces that can even be
    considered in those terms.  I will find the right people to join
    those already involved through networking in forums such as this. I
    thank you for your attention and look forward to hearing from all
    interested party's. 

Regards, 
Jeffrey Miller Merendon Jewelry
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 



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