Optical Technician: Frame & Lens Expert

EyeCare Partners LLC; Hoover (AL); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

401k + employer matching

PTO and paid holidays

Paid maternity leave

Competitive base pay

Employee discounts

Job summary

EyeCare Partners LLC is looking for an Optical Technician to join our team. You will dispense and fit glasses and contacts, based on ophthalmologists' prescriptions, while maximizing retail sales and clinically supporting patients.

As a valued team member, you will measure and verify patients’ frames, operate lensometry equipment, and educate customers on lenses, coatings, and frames. A high school diploma is required and ABO/NCLE are preferred but not required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 1 year in a role interacting with customers/patients.
• ABO and NCLE certifications preferred, but not required.
• Favorable background check as required by state.
• 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.
• Measure 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.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Sales

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

EyeCare Partners LLC is looking for an Optical Technician to join our team. You will dispense and fit glasses and contacts, based on ophthalmologists' prescriptions, while maximizing retail sales and clinically supporting patients.

As a valued team member, you will measure and verify patients’ frames, operate lensometry equipment, and educate customers on lenses, coatings, and frames. A high school diploma is required and ABO/NCLE are preferred but not required.