Optician Job at Trinity Employment Specialists, Tulsa, OK

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  • Trinity Employment Specialists
  • Tulsa, OK

Job Description

Job Title: Experienced Optician (Bilingual Preferred)

Location: Tulsa, OK (Multiple Locations)

Job Type: Full-Time

Hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Monday - Friday)

Hourly Wage: $17.00 per hour (or less, depending on experience)

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced, professional, and customer-oriented Optician to join our team. As an Optician, you will be responsible for providing exceptional service to our patients, ensuring they receive the best eyewear solutions to meet their needs. This role requires a keen understanding of different types of bifocals, progressives, and the ability to adjust and dispense frames with precision. The ideal candidate will also have experience with insurance verification and claims filing.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Insurance Verification & Filing: Pull and verify different insurance plans, ensuring all necessary documentation is completed accurately and timely.
  • Eyewear Fitting & Dispensing: Measure patients for various types of bifocals and progressives, ensuring proper fit and comfort. Dispense frames and lenses, adjusting them to fit each patient correctly.
  • Customer Interaction: Engage with patients to understand their eyewear needs and recommend appropriate products. Provide guidance on lens types, frames, and overall optical solutions.
  • Lensometer Use: Ability to use a lensometer to check the prescription and verify the accuracy of finished glasses.
  • Frame Adjustments: Adjust frames as needed to ensure a proper fit and comfort for patients.
  • Lab Work (Optional): Willingness to work in the lab when needed to assist with the preparation of eyewear products.
  • Multitasking in a Fast-Paced Environment: Work efficiently in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple tasks and patient needs simultaneously.
  • Travel Between Locations: While most work will be at our Tulsa location, occasional travel to our other locations may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bilingual: Spanish-speaking candidates are highly preferred but not required.
  • Experience: Previous experience as an Optician is required, including experience with bifocals, progressives, and lensometer use.
  • Customer Service: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a focus on patient care and satisfaction.
  • Detail-Oriented: Strong attention to detail when measuring, adjusting, and verifying eyewear products.

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* Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. 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. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.
* Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
* Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
* Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
* Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
* Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
* Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
* Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
* Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
* Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
* Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
* Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
* Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
* Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
* Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
* Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
* Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
* Supervise the training of student opticians.
* Order and purchase frames and lenses.
* Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
* Repair damaged frames.
* Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Monday to Friday,

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