Optical Assistant - Johannesburg

Requirements:

• • High School diploma or equivalent required
• • Strong organizational skills
• • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly and effectively with patients, staff, managers, and doctors
• • Outstanding accuracy and attention to detail
• • Working knowledge of proper sales techniques
• • Basic computer literacy with experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Outlook a plus
• • Minimum of 2 years' experience in reception, clerical, or customer service fields

• • Demonstrates professional manner in work setting
• • Is neat, well groomed, and follows dress code
• • Demonstrates ability to evaluate suggestions and criticism objectively and non-defensively, and undertakes measures to change behavior or seek guidance
• • Demonstrates flexibility and supports changes that improve quality of care, service, and operations
• • Demonstrates flexibility in work assignments and hours within the department
• • Attends required meetings as scheduled
• • Responds to emails and work requests in a complete and timely manner
• • Takes initiative to assist other staff in completion of their assignments as needed
• • Maintains a positive and cooperative outlook toward his/her position, the office, and fellow employees
• • Maintains consistent attendance and reports to work on-time

• • Processes and price incoming frame shipments from manufacturers
• • Assists in wholesale purchasing of frames and other products for resale to patients
• • Sets up new merchandise into Nextech
• • Performs eyeglass frame adjustments and repairs
• • Verifies lens prescriptions and check for accuracy when we receive them from the lab
• • Process mail deliveries and route frames and other merchandise to proper destination
• • Assists in the return of authorized frames to manufacturers and prepare credit forms
• • Design, arrange and maintain product displays
• • Organizes and maintain frame display area throughout the workday
• • Monitors inventory levels
• • Performs other tasks and duties as assigned