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Trainee Lab Technician
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Trainee Lab Technician - Optical Laboratory
If you’re proactive, highly organised, enjoy hands-on work and delivering top-tier customer service, this traineeship could be your ideal match. Discover the opportunity to grow in a supportive optical environment.
About the Role
As a Trainee Lab Technician, you’ll thrive in a modern laboratory using state-of-the-art computer-controlled equipment. Your meticulous attention to detail ensures exceptional lens and frame handling, delivering the highest standards of craftsmanship to exceptional pastoral care – here, your work directly impacts customer satisfaction.
Our Team
We operate a compact yet skilled core team in-house, working alongside our dynamic store-based colleagues. Together, we’re dedicated to delivering precision optical solutions.
What’s On Offer?
This position offers comprehensive growth, competitive rewards, and quality support mechanisms. The full package includes:
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- Competitive pay: Up to £12.91/hour
- Flexible working: Up to 40 hours per week, including weekend availability
- Extra leave: A birthday day off
- Specsavers Perks: Financial benefits through an exclusive portal, offering everyday discounts
- Wellbeing support: Access to headspace for mental wellness
- Employee assistance: WeCare service, covering you and your immediate family
- Affordable discounts: Enjoy hearcare, optometry and telehealth benefits for you and your family
- Enhanced family leave and fair company sick pay
- Auto-enrolment in pension scheme upon joining, matched by employer contribution
Requirements & Desired Qualities
Ideal candidates bring these personal and professional characteristics:
- A strong eye for detail – Essential for precision optical work
- Flexibility & adaptability – Thrives amidst dynamic environments
- Highly organised – Ensures workflows run seamlessly
- Self-motivated and hard-working – Relentlessly dedicated to excellence
- Robust time management – Meets deadlines without compromise
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Daily Responsibilities
Upon training, you’ll take ownership of the following tasks:
- Reading and interpreting lens and frame specifications from patients
- Operating -blocking and glazing machines to achieve accurate lens cuts
- Assembling completed frames with precision
- Applying tinting to lenses, ensuring UV protection and custom tint options
- Ordering new frames and lenses to stock requirements
- Quality-checking finished eyewear, guaranteeing flawless fit
- Maintaining laboratory hygiene and equipment, ensuring all systems run optimally
Why Apply?
Ready to combine technical skill with personal responsibility? We look forward to your application – join us today!
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