Optical Lab Technician

Overview

Glazing Optical Lab Technician — Birmingham, West Midlands

Salary: £30,000-£31,000 | 12 hour shifts | Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and alternative Wednesdays | Permanent

• Assemble and verify lenses in accordance with ISO standards and internal quality requirements, ensuring accuracy and consistency at all stages of the process.
• Prioritise glazing and assembly workload in line with customer delivery service schedules, escalating any risks to service levels as appropriate.
• Carry out edging and assembly of all frames using hand edge machines, ensuring customer specifications, prescriptions, and frame requirements are met precisely.
• Perform final inspection of all finished spectacles, confirming compliance with customer requirements, prescriptions, and ISO quality standards before release.
• Work within the MEC (Manufacturing Excellence Cell) area when required to provide operational cover. Full training will be provided where needed to support flexibility and development.
• Develop the capability to work across multiple areas of the laboratory, including the MEC area, to support operational resilience and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a working understanding of AS400, accurately completing queries on orders and ensuring system data is correct and up to date.
• Liaise effectively with Assembly Glazers, the Operations Manager, and the Production Support Engineer to resolve order queries, quality issues, or process concerns in a timely manner.
• Work closely with the Operations Manager to ensure all daily laboratory tasks are completed in line with production plans and business priorities.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping, ensuring the workspace is kept clean, organised, and compliant with health and safety requirements at all times.
• Adhere to all health and safety procedures, taking responsibility for personal safety and that of colleagues by following safe systems of work.
• Contribute positively to team performance by sharing knowledge, supporting colleagues, and promoting a culture of quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrates excellent technical knowledge of glazing processes, with the ability to accurately assemble lenses to prescription, customer, and ISO quality standards.
• Possesses strong communication skills, enabling effective liaison with colleagues across the laboratory, including assembly, production support, and management teams.
• Shows well-developed problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify issues, investigate root causes, and implement practical solutions to meet quality and delivery targets.
• Displays solid computer literacy, including the ability to work confidently with laboratory systems and accurately input, update, and complete order information and queries.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to health and safety by adhering to safe systems of work, using equipment correctly, and maintaining a clean and secure working environment at all times.

• £30,000-£31,000 salary.
• Permanent role from day one.
• 12 hour shifts working Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and alternative Wednesdays.
• Full training provided where needed to support flexibility and development.
• Acorn by Synergie acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment