Optician

We are looking for a Licensed Optician to join our Lee Eye Center Boardman 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.

Schedule

• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Must be willing to occasionally travel to our East Liverpool office.

Responsibilities

• Remain current with eyewear trends.
• Evaluate customer 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 goods related to eyes in general.
• Assist customers in selecting frames according to style and color and ensure that frames are coordinated 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 customers' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometer or lens analyzers and customers' eyeglasses.
• Order and purchase frames and lenses.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent.
• Experience working in customer service.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Have an optical license.
• Familiarity with ophthalmology and optometry practice.
• Preferred: 2 years recent retail office experience (optical retail preferred).
• Preferred: Graduate of Optical Studies Program.

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 company paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.