Optical Technician - Frame Fitting & Lens Guidance

Eye Care Partners Career Opportunities; New Bern (NC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

EyeCare Partners Career Opportunities is seeking an Optical Technician to dispense and fit glasses and contacts from prescriptions provided by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists. You will support the Total Patient Experience while helping patients select frames, lenses, and coatings that best meet their needs.

In this role you will operate lensometry equipment, take precise measurements, and ensure accurate dispensing of orders.

Qualifications

• Previous medical office experience preferred; previous ophthalmic experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year in a position interacting with customers/patients or the equivalent combination of education and experience
• Favorable result on background check as required by state
• Must be able to provide proof of identity and right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Embrace and execute our Total Patient Experience to build relationships with all patients while delivering great medical support
• Determine patient wants and needs and selling to exceed their expectations
• Assist patients in selecting frames according to style and color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions
• Able to operate the auto-lensometer and manual lensometer
• Educate and recommend specific lenses, lens coatings and frames to suit patient needs
• Can accurately collect measurements such as bridge, eye size, temple length, seg heights, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and pantoscopic tilt
• Dispense patient orders and repair and adjust patient frames
• Dispense all glasses and/or contact lens orders using current process

Job description

EyeCare Partners Career Opportunities is seeking an Optical Technician to dispense and fit glasses and contacts from prescriptions provided by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists. You will support the Total Patient Experience while helping patients select frames, lenses, and coatings that best meet their needs.

In this role you will operate lensometry equipment, take precise measurements, and ensure accurate dispensing of orders.