What are the responsibilities and job description for the Optician position at My Vision Centers?
Now Hiring:
An energetic Optician, or Dispensing Optician, is responsible for helping customers achieve the right type of eyeglasses, lens shape or contact lenses in accordance with their eyesight or eye conditions. Their duties include communicating with other eye care professionals to receive prescriptions and send them to Laboratory Technicians, providing customers with sample frames to fit their prescriptions and maintaining accurate customer data regarding their current or updated prescriptions as well as billing to insurance. Wonderful benefits and working environment.
Duties and responsibilities Include:
- Interpreting the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists
- Advising patients on frame weights, materials, styles and colors
- Recommending lenses, coatings and frames to suit customers’ needs
- Measuring customers to determine suitable types and styles of frames
- Adjusting frames so they fit properly
- Preparing orders for glasses and contact lenses by checking prescriptions, lens thickness and other specifications
- Making sure that orders for glasses and contact lenses have been processed accurately
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $17.00 - $22.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Optical: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: One location