Optician

Job Description

Seeking an upbeat, positive candidate to join our team. The ideal person must be able to work with our large base of customers by delivering quality optical care and outstanding and friendly customer service. You must be able to assist patients with eyeglasses fittings, eyewear testing and optical dispensing. You must also possess strong sales skills by demonstrating a high level of knowledge about our products and determining our patients’ needs for eyewear so you can recommend specific accessories or enhancements for glasses.

Job Responsibilities

• Use prescription information from the doctor and the patient’s preferences, face shape and other factors to help select the appropriate pair of eyeglasses, frames and lenses.
• Give product recommendations to patients based on their vision needs and lifestyle, such as frame construction, lens material and lens coatings.
• Take accurate measurements of each patient’s face and optical details to ensure a comfortable and proper fit before ordering frames.
• Adjust new frames using optical tools or pliers to get a closer and more accurate fit on the patient’s face when the patient has problems with comfort or poor vision.
• Knowledge on how to use contact lenses by showing patients how to clean the lenses, insert them, remove them easily and properly care for contact lenses.
• Maintain a clean and visually appealing daily optical display by organizing the stock of eyeglasses, sunglasses and accessories.
• Complete additional office tasks regularly such as preparing paperwork for patient insurance payments, filing insurance, ordering inventory and tracking orders in the system.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Focus on a fine attention to detail
• Excellent customer service and communication skills

Preferred:

• Experience in private practice optical dispensary preferred.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus opportunities

Experience:

• Sales: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person