Optician - Part Time

Department: Clinical Operations

Employment Type: Part Time

Location: Joliet Office

Reporting To: Paula Ihnat

Description

What you will be doing

• Remain current with eyewear trends.
• Evaluate customer’s prescriptions and visual requirements.
• Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
• Measure clients bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Selling goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
• Assist customers in selecting frames according to style and color and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
• Heat and shape plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients
• Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
• Determine customer’s current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometer or lens analyzers and customer’s eyeglasses.
• Order and purchase frames and lenses.

What you know

• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Experience working in customer service
• Excellent verbal communication skills

• 2 years recent retail office experience (Optical Retail preferred)
• ABO/NCLE Certified
• Graduate of Optical Studies Program
• Familiarity with Ophthalmology and Optometry practice

What you will receive

• Competitive wages
• Network of Partnered Practices across 5 states 
• Lucrative Monthly Incentive Program 
• Little to No nights or weekends!
• Robust benefit package including medical, dental, life and disability (short- and long-term) insurance
• Generous paid time off (PTO) program
• Seven (7) company paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• An organization focused on People, Passion, Purpose and Progress
• Inspirational culture