Lab Technician
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Initial recruiter screening → Hiring Manager interview → Role-specific practical assessment.
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Role Overview & Responsibilities
Are you passionate about creating quality products and creating joy for customers? We are looking for a laboratory technician to join our production team at our retail fulfilment hub based in Nottingham. In this exciting role you’ll play a key role in the manufacture of eyewear to our high-quality standards and to the customer’s prescription and needs.
What can you expect from the role?
We pride ourselves on delivering high quality products, which is why you’ll be involved in shaping our success. From ensuring all laboratory equipment is maintained and calibrated, to producing high quality eyewear for our customers, we’ll look to you to maintain our high-quality standards and create joy in vision for our customers.
Using your knowledge and skills you’ll provide and accurate and knowledgeable advise and guidance to meet each customer’s specific needs by making recommendations including the selection and purchase of all types of eye-wear and eye care solutions. We’re big on continuous improvement, which is why you’ll be involved in shaping our success. We’ll look to you to make recommendations for opportunity to improve our processes and ways of working.
At Vision Express we win together, so all our colleagues have a role to play in making our customers and colleagues feel special. You can expect a busy but high achieving environment with a purpose, culture, and values to match, where everyone is working towards the same goal: creating joy in vision for our colleagues and customers
About you
To be successful in this role you’ll have previous experience working in a fast paced production environment and have a good eye for detail along with manual dexterity due to the complexity of the work. Having experience of working within an optical background is advantageous.
Our retail fulfilment hub is a busy environment, so loves to work as part of a team and who thrives under the pressures of a fast paced environment.
We know you matter and that is why it is our commitment to make this a job you enjoy by recognising your achievements and encouraging you to be involved in shaping our success. Our Game Changing leaders will support your career with excellent training and development opportunities. The horizons are limitless.
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