Optician

About the role

We are looking for an Optician to join our team. As an Optician you will sell, fit and dispense eyewear to patients. Our Opticians help customers look and see their best working with the latest Eyewear Fashion Trends!

Responsibilities

• Remain current with eyewear trends.
• Evaluate customer's prescriptions and visual requirements.
• Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
• Measure clients bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Selling goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
• Aid customers in selecting frames according to style and color and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
• Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
• Determine customer's current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometer or lens analyzers and customer's eyeglasses.
• Order and purchase frames and lenses.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Experience working in customer service.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• 2 years recent retail office experience (Optical Retail preferred).
• ABO/NCLE Certified.
• Graduate of Optical Studies Program.
• Familiarity with Ophthalmology and Optometry practice.

Qualifications

• Desired 2 years recent retail office experience (Optical Retail preferred).
• ABO/NCLE Certified.
• Graduate of Optical Studies Program.
• Familiarity with Ophthalmology and Optometry practice.

Skills

• Knowledge of eyewear trends.
• Ability to evaluate customer's visual requirements.
• Ability to recommend appropriate lenses and frames.
• Proficiency in measuring and adjusting eyeglasses.
• Customer service skills.
• Verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of Ophthalmology and Optometry.

Benefits

• Competitive wages.
• Network of Partnered Practices across 5 states.
• Lucrative Monthly Incentive Program.
• Little to No nights or weekends!
• Robust benefit package including medical, dental, life and disability (short- and long-term) insurance.
• Generous paid time off (PTO) program.
• Seven (7) company paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.

Pay

Competitive wages.

Schedule

Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm

Provide semi-float coverage across West CEC office locations (Avon, Avon Lake, Elyria, and Amherst) based on operational needs. Elyria will be the primary office.