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Spectacle Technician Apprenticeship - Enfield Specsavers
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About the Role
This scheme provides people of all ages with the opportunity to enhance their existing skill set and embark on a new and exciting career, all while earning a full-time wage. We are currently seeking individuals who are passionate about pursuing a career in optics. Your role will involve producing and repairing high-quality, finished spectacles.
Day-to-Day Activities
- Producing customer orders from scratch
- Interpreting optical prescriptions and drawings
- Correcting faults and re-assembling glasses
- Carrying out testing and adjustments
- Preparing and maintaining materials and equipment
- Ensuring the production of the highest quality-assured products
Benefits
- Earn a salary while learning new skills
- Structured career opportunities for the future
- Experience full-time work and enjoy paid holidays
- Work for a friendly employer who values you
- Receive comprehensive and structured training
- Learn transferable as well as job-specific skills
Apprenticeship Details
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Course Contents
- Apply health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Apply team working principles.
- Communicate with colleagues and stakeholders using verbal, written, or electronic methods and industry terminology.
- Identify hazards and risks in the workplace: PPE, COSHH, manual handling.
- Use tools and equipment required to manufacture optical products: lenses, frames, and component parts.
- Identify, organise, and use resources to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, priority, and environmental impact.
- Calibrate and maintain optical equipment and tools to supplier guidelines and MDD specifications, such as blocker, tracer, lens curve generator, coating equipment, or focimeter.
- Apply quality assurance principles and procedures and record outcomes for completed orders.
- Identify products, their classification, and any impact on manufacturing or quality, for example, engravings on safety glasses, and remarking progressives.
- Monitor stock levels and rotate stock.
- Collect and use data on productivity and quality to improve processes and staff training.
- Prepare component parts for manufacturing or treatment.
- Manufacture component parts to complete the manufacturing or treatment process.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with data protection, and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Apply standard operating procedures (SOPs) for optical products.
- Apply repair practices and techniques to optical products.
- Select tools and equipment to manufacture and repair optical products.
- Plan work sequence to support the effective use of time and resources in the manufacturing process.
- Produce customer orders from online, telephone, and face-to-face requests.
- Check and calibrate tools and equipment.
- Interpret work instructions including optical prescriptions and manufacturer’s guidance for component parts.
- Conduct supplier and credit processes.
- Apply safe systems of work and control measures.
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Level 3 Spectacle Maker Apprenticeship
- Daily on-the-job training in store – no college to attend
- Full-time, 5 out of 7 days
- Training provider: Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited
- Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end-point assessment through Functional Skills training
GCSE Requirements
- Maths (grade 9-4 (A*-C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Before applying, please check that you are able to travel to the store location on a daily basis, bearing in mind the salary, etc.
About Specsavers
Specsavers is a truly talented organisation and the world's largest privately-owned optical group in the world. We have over 1,845 stores operating in over 10 countries, boasting over 37,000 colleagues worldwide. We are a revolutionary, dynamic, family business, continuing to go from strength to strength and proud of it.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay.
Your on-the-job training will sit alongside structured learning that will lead to a nationally recognised qualification.
At the end of your 15-18 months as an apprentice, you’ll be a fully-fledged Optical Technician.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPECSAVERS OPTICAL SUPERSTORES LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000051864.
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