Sales Associate

Optical Technician / Sales Associate

Eye Care Partners, the nation’s leading provider of clinically integrated eye care, has partnered with iHire to reach top talent for this opening. With a national network of over 300 ophthalmologists and 700 optometrists, Eye Care Partners provides a lifetime of care across 18 states and 80 markets.

An Optical Technician/Sales Associate will provide a world‑class patient experience that maximizes retail sales while supporting patients’ medical needs. This team member is trained to dispense and fit glasses and contacts using prescriptions written by Optometrists and Ophthalmologists, and to connect patient needs with the goods and services offered.

• Work is primarily performed in a standard office or clinical setting. Travel to other locations may be required to carry out essential job duties.

• Embrace and execute our Total Patient Experience to build relationships with all patients while delivering great medical support.
• Determine patient wants and needs and sell to exceed their expectations.
• Assist patients in selecting frames according to style and color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
• Operate the auto‑lensometer and manual lensometer.
• Educate and recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit patient needs.
• Accurately collect measurements such as bridge, eye size, temple length, segment heights, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and pantoscopic tilt.
• Dispense patient orders and repair and adjust patient frames.
• Dispense all glasses and/or contact lens orders using current processes.

• Previous medical office experience preferred; prior ophthalmic experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 1 year in a position interacting with customers/patients or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Favorable result on a background check as required by state.
• Must provide proof of identity and right to work in the United States.

• High school diploma or GED required.

• ABO and NCLE certifications preferred but not required.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.

This role requires frequent walking (75%), sitting (50%), and standing (50%). Employees must be able to bend, stoop, reach, and lift items up to 25 lbs. Fine motor skills, full use of hands, and visual and auditory acuity are essential. Occasional driving or climbing may also be necessary.

Eye Care Partners is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

NOTE:

Job descriptions are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making fair pay decisions about jobs. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• Entry level

Full Time

Employment Type:

Full Time

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