Description
Summary:
UPMC is hiring a full-time Optician for our Natrona Heights office located at 2853 Freeport Road. This role is Monday - Friday daylight shits. Responsible for fitting eyeglasses frames and selecting lenses for the spectacles that are appropriate for the patient's cosmetic, vocational and lifestyle needs. Finishing/ edging lenses to fit patient frames. If you are interested in helping patients with their eyewear needs and making a difference in their lives, this is the position for you!
Responsibilities:
- Knowledge of the assorted brands of lenses and lens materials currently available as well as willingness to keep current with new lens technologies is needed.
- Measure customer's eyes, including pupillary and vertex distance as well as making all required measurements for bifocals, trifocals or progressive addition lenses.
- Frame adjustments using a variety of specialized instruments.
- After glasses are made, the optician must verify that the lenses have been ground to specifications.
- Use a lensometer to verify prescriptions and edge lenses.
- Instruct patients in adapting to, wearing of, and caring for eyewear. Process necessary paperwork for vision specific carriers as well as accepting payments for materials as needed. Maintain patient optical records. Answer phone inquiries.
- Edge and finish lenses according to specifications provided by the prescribing doctor.
- Recommend eyeglass frames, lenses, lens coatings, and ancillary products after considering the prescription and customer's needs and facial features.
Qualifications
- High school graduate and three (3) years' experience working as an optician required.
- ABO, MyVision Express software, or comparable preferred
- Optician license preferred.
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
- Act 34
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