Optician at Soteria Eye Clinic

Responsibilities:

• Provide expert service to customers regarding their optical needs
• Measure, fit, adapt, and repair eyewear and frames of glasses to fit correctly on customers’ faces.
• Interpret the results of eye examinations, using prescriptions written by Optometrists
• Manufacture lenses in the on-site finishing lab (when possible) with accurate measurements.
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specific.
• Take appropriate markings on the patient’s frame and fixing with axis orientation.
• Prepare and deliver orders to the laboratory for lens grinding and eyewear fabrication, as needed.
• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centres of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of current trends in eyewear and ophthalmic lens technology.
• Ensure that orders for glasses and contact lenses are processed accurately.

Requirement:

• Knowledge of visual defects/anomalies and lens types
• Experience using optical instrumentation
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Mathematics skills for calculating vision angles and distances
• Precision and excellent attention to detail