Optician

About the role

As an Optician, you will sell, fit, and dispense eyewear to patients, helping customers look and see their best while 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.
• Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other eye-related products.
• Assist customers in selecting frames according to style and color, ensuring coordination with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
• Heat and shape plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients.
• Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
• Determine customer's current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using a 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.

Qualifications (Desired)

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

Benefits

• Competitive wages.
• Lucrative monthly incentive program.
• 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.
• An organization focused on People, Passion, Purpose, and Progress.
• Inspirational culture.

Schedule

• Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM.
• Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM.
• Little to no nights or weekends.

About Midwest Vision Partners

Midwest Vision Partners was founded in 2019 to build a premier eye care platform in partnership with Alpine Investors, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. Alpine supports MVP with a PeopleFirst™ philosophy, financial resources, and a commitment to physician leadership. Headquartered in Chicago, our mission is to provide world-class support to ophthalmologists and optometrists, enabling them to focus on improving patients' vision. Today, MVP's network consists of 16 practices, 125 physicians, and roughly 1,500 employees providing medical and surgical eye care services at over 60 locations throughout the Midwest. We strive to be the premier provider of eye care in the region through a culture of collaboration and excellence.