Optician jobs in Temple, TX

Outgoing? Enjoy Closing Sales? Mechanically Inclined? We Want You!

Precision Eye Care is looking for an out-going and self-confident full-time optician interested in long-term employment.

The Purpose of the Position:

The top priority of this position to ensure that patients complete their treatment plan so that they have the eyewear they need to see and to improve their quality of life. Your primary responsibility would be to close glasses sales on the retail floor. Your secondary responsibilities would be to repair, adjust, and fabricate glasses and manage order fulfilment.

The Why:

Precision Eye Care is dedicated to caring for the visual and eye health of the Brazos Valley community so that they have the vision they need to improve the lives of others. We believe in providing our patients with superior customer service and we need your help to do so. We are looking for a new team member who will help ensure that the patients receive they eyewear they need and that the new glasses are perfect.

The Culture:

Precision Eye Care team members believe in treating patients like family, are always smiling, like to have fun in their work, have a strong work ethic, work together as a unified team, enjoy getting together after work for socials, and occasionally will tell very silly jokes. If this sounds like someplace you’d like to work, read on.

Core Values:

We are looking for someone who:

• Genuinely enjoys helping others
• Wants work that matters - you'd truly help improve others' quality of life
• Is a happy person that is fun to be around and has fun interacting with other people

The Duties: This position combines laboratory, order management, and sales skills

The primary responsibilities include:

* Assist patients in selecting frames.

* Make recommendations on the best lenses for the patients based on the patients’ needs.

* Provide price quotes to patients and close sales.

* Explain to patients how their insurance benefits/discounts work.

* File insurance claims of the patients you help.

The secondary responsibilities include:

* Order and check in glasses from the optical laboratory.

* Edge lenses and assemble glasses.

* Adjust, repair, and dispense glasses.

* Monitor order status of all jobs - both patient and stock orders

* Troubleshoot any non-prescription patient problems with the lenses

* Provide statistics for weekly meetings.

* Perform data entry tasks.

* Perform light janitorial duties.

Starting Date: Immediately

Hours: Mondays to Thursdays 9 am to 5:30 pm, Friday 9 am to 4:30 pm.

Employees can expect to stay 30 minutes after closing each day to complete assigned tasks. There is also a 30 minute meeting on Tuesdays from 8:30 am to 9 am.

Qualifications: Applicants must be mechanically inclined, detail oriented, and have strong multi-tasking, customer service, and computer skills and be comfortable closing sales. Applicants must be quick learners, highly motivated, have a strong work ethic, maintain a professional appearance, and be high energy. Experience in the optical field is preferred, but not required. A high school diploma is required. Only applicants looking for a long term career need apply.

Instructions for Applying:

Apply at www.bcseyes.com/jobs

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $14.00 - $18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Sales Experience: 1 year (Required)
• Optical Experience: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Ste. 900 College Station, TX 77845: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person