Optician
Description

Job Summary

  • Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification.
  • No weekends or evening hours 

General Accountabilities

  • Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
  • Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses.
  • Assist client with selecting frames. 
  • Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. 
  • Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. 
  • May shape or reshape frames. 
  • Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
  • Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
  • Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
  • Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
  • Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
  • Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
  • Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
  • Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs. 
  • Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
  • The Company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.
Requirements
  •  Must have at least one to two years of previous work-related skill, knowledge or experience in the field. 
Salary Description
$19.00 - $22.00