Optician (Full-time or Part-time)

MILLER EYE CENTER LTD; Rockford (IL); On-site; USD 38,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No weekends or evening hours

Job summary

MILLER EYE CENTER LTD offers an ophthalmic optical position in Rockford, IL. The role involves designing, measuring, fitting, and adapting lenses and frames according to prescriptions, while ensuring comfort and accuracy for each client.

No weekends or evening hours are required. You will verify lens specs, assist with frame choices, and coordinate measurements to provide high-quality eyewear aligned with customer needs.

Responsibilities

• 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 bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers using measuring devices.
• Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
• Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' visual requirements.
• Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure alignment with measurements and 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.

Job description

Description

Job Summary

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

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.