Optician

Now hiring | Evening & weekend optician

Established optometry practice | Northwest suburbs

Part-time evenings and weekends. Great second job — or the perfect part-time job.

We’re looking for an experienced optician to help with patients, fittings, and the floor during our busiest hours.

• Experience required
• Lab experience preferred, not required
• Evenings and weekends

Full job description

Licensed / Experienced Optician — Evenings & Weekends

Established Optometry Practice | Northwest Suburbs of Chicago

Part-Time | Evenings and Weekends | Great second job or the perfect part-time job

About our practice

We are an established optometry practice in the northwest suburbs serving patients who need quality eyewear, accurate fittings, and first-rate eye exams. We need an experienced optician for evenings and weekends.

This is a part-time role meant as a strong second job or as someone’s ideal part-time schedule. Experience is required. In-office lab experience is preferred but not required. out-of-pocket expenses.

Position summary
You are the face of the optical after hours and on weekends. You help with frame selection, measurements, lens recommendations, adjustments, repairs, and dispense. You support the doctors’ prescriptions, complete paperwork and computer entries, coordinate with the lab, and keep the dispensary organized and presentable.

This is not training from scratch. After a short orientation to our systems, vendors, and doctors’ preferences, you should be able to work the floor with limited supervision.

Schedule

• Part-time evenings and weekends
• Weekday evenings after regular hours and weekend shifts
• Hours may shift a little with volume, doctor schedules, and season
• Good for someone who already works days and wants extra income, or an optician who wants part-time

Essential duties

• Greet patients and handle new glasses, remakes, repairs, and adjustments
• Read prescriptions and recommend lens types, materials, coatings, and designs
• Help with frame selection: fit, comfort, durability, and style
• Take accurate measurements and complete order tickets correctly
• Place, track, and follow up on lab orders; inspect finished eyewear before dispense
• Dispense glasses, review wear and care, and adjust on the spot
• Do frame adjustments, pad and temple work, and basic repairs
• Troubleshoot fit issues, non-adapts, and remakes
• Keep boards, displays, and the dispensary clean and shoppable
• Enter patient information, orders, and notes in the practice system
• Communicate with doctors, front desk, and the lab on problem jobs
• Review basic vision-plan benefits when needed and explain out-of-pocket options
• Help with inventory, incoming stock, and transfers as directed
• Follow HIPAA and office privacy rules
• Close or help close the optical on evening and weekend shifts

Lab (preferred)
Lab experience is preferred, not required. If you have finishing-lab or in-office lab time, you will move faster on edge, mount, tint, and repair questions. Without lab experience, you still need to read a job ticket, inspect finished work, and talk to an outside lab.

• If qualified: support in-office finishing, edging, mounting, or basic tasks as assigned
• Tell when a job should be remade versus adjusted
• Catch layout, axis, or mounting errors

Required

• Proven optician experience in retail optical, independent optical, or an optometry practice
• Able to work independently evenings and weekends
• Strong fitting and patient communication skills
• Comfortable with measurements, lens recommendations, and dispense
• Basic computer skills and willingness to learn our software
• Reliable transportation and consistent attendance
• Professional appearance and a calm floor manner

Preferred

• Illinois optician experience or equivalent hands-on training
• In-office or wholesale lab experience
• Familiarity with common vision plans
• Progressives, high prescriptions, and specialty fits
• Bilingual a plus

Physical / environment
Clinical and retail optical setting. Standing for long stretches, handling small tools, lifting frame trays or boxes, working at a computer and fitting table. Evening and weekend shifts can be busy; you may have more than one patient going at once.

What we offer

• Real evening and weekend part-time hours
• Established patient base in the northwest suburbs
• An optometry practice floor, not a high-pressure chain
• Room to use actual optician skills

How to apply
Send resume with your background and availability.

Established optometry practice — Northwest suburbs — Part-time optician

Skills

• Troubleshooting
• Clinic
• Optician
• Optometry
• Bilingual
• Computer Literacy
• Lensometer
• Eyewear
• Frame Selection
• Pupilometer

Pay: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 15.0 – 20.0 per week

Work Location: In person