Optician

Description

Job Summary

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

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.

Requirements

•  Must have at least one to two years of previous work-related skill, knowledge or experience in the field.