Dispensing Optician

Mercyhealth Wisconsin and Illinois•Janesville, WI

36d•$19 - $29•Onsite

About The Position

Mercyhealth is seeking a Dispensing Optician to join their team. This role involves evaluating prescriptions, recommending and fitting eyewear, and providing excellent customer service. The Dispensing Optician will work with clients to ensure their visual needs are met through appropriate lens and frame selection, precise measurements, and proper fitting and care instructions. Additionally, the role includes selling and fitting contact lenses and other optical goods, as well as performing minor repairs and managing sales transactions.

Requirements

High School graduate preferred
Experience in optical, optometry or ophthalmic field preferred
ABO preferred
Good interpersonal and communication skills
Detailed oriented

Responsibilities

Evaluates prescription in conjunction with client's vocational and avocational visual requirements.
Determines client's current lens prescription, when necessary, using lensometer or lens analyzer and client's eyeglasses.
Recommends specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
Assists client in selecting frames according to style and color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription.
Measures client's bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes.
Prepares work order and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
Verifies finished lenses are ground to specification.
Heats, shapes, or bends plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit client.
Instructs clients in adapting to, wearing, and caring for eyeglasses.
Sells and fits contact lenses.
Sells optical goods such as binoculars, plano sunglasses, magnifying glasses, and low vision aids.
Repairs damaged frames.
Selects and orders frames for display.
Grinds lens edges or applies coating to lenses.
Computes amount of sale and collects payment for services.