Optician/student Optician

**Responsibilities**:
As a dispensing Optician, you will be responsible for the overall patient care tasks including, but not limited to:

- Being responsible to fulfill sales quotas set by the Business Manager for your location;
- Ordering, displaying, and pricing inventory;
- Keeping your location in an utmost presentable condition at all times;
- Keeping the lab operations smooth and in-check at all times;
- Providing recommendations to increase sales;
- Providing recommendations on how the advertising budgets are spent;
- Ensuring customer satisfaction and resolving customer disputes in professional and calm manner;
Additionally:

- Scheduling appointments for the Optometrists
- Pretesting patients and provide doctor support
- Fitting, Adjusting and dispensing eye glasses, and contact lenses under the optometrist’s supervision
- Accurately interpreting optical prescriptions written by optometrists or ophthalmologists;
- Giving advice to patients on lens type, frames and styling;
- Fitting contact lenses and giving detailed advice/training on their care and use;
- Taking accurate frame and facial measurements to ensure correct fit and positioning;
- Collection of eye measurements including corneal width and thickness;
- Advising partially sighted patients on the use of low vision aids;
- Advising patients when adjustments or repairs to spectacles are needed;
- Helping patients select eyeglass and lens treatments including tints and coatings;
- Adjusting eyeglasses to ensure a proper fit;
- Ordering lenses from prescription houses and completed jobs from optical labs;
- Edging lenses accurately to ensure proper fit and to adhere to industry practices;
- Keeping track of orders, prescriptions, and inventory
- Creating work orders for lab technicians to ensure delivery of the proper lenses
- Checking lenses on delivery to ensure that they meet the required specifications;
- Arranging and maintaining creative shop displays;
- Liaising with sales representatives from vision care product suppliers;
- Active participation in store meetings
- Timely communication with the store Director/Business Manager
- Expected to be flexible & work a variety of shifts including evenings and weekends (retail hours)
- Keeping accurate patient and business records;
- Customer service and other tasks as required
- Selecting, managing and ordering a range of optical and non-optical products including Inventory, Optometrist supplies, Chiropodist supplies, and generally office and cleaning supplies as necessary;
- Maintain a clean and spotless appearance of the entire store that is welcoming to the patients
- Supervising and training trainee sales staff;
- Be accountable for meeting sales goals and pro-actively provide feedback to the staff and management on the achievement on the set goals.We are looking for an experienced Optician to join our team. We are a growing practice with a great team. We are looking for a long-term employee who is looking to grow with us.

Pay: $17.62-$25.50 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Flexible schedule
- Store discount
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Commission pay

Work Location: In person