Spectacle Technician Apprenticeship

Day-to-day activities include:

• 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 highest quality assurance, and communicating with colleagues and stakeholders—verbal, written or electronic—using industry terminology
• Identifying hazards and risks in the workplace: PPE, COSHH, manual handling
• Using tools and equipment to manufacture optical products: lenses, frames and component parts
• Organising and using resources to complete tasks, considering cost, quality, priority and environmental impact
• Calibrating and maintaining optical equipment and tools to supplier guidelines and MDD specifications (e.g., blocker, tracer, lens curve generator, coating equipment, focimeter)
• Applying quality assurance principles, procedures and recording outcomes for completed orders
• Identifying products, their classification and any impact on manufacturing or quality (e.g., engravings on safety glasses, remarking progressives)
• Monitoring stock levels and rotating stock
• Collecting and using data on productivity and quality to improve processes and staff training
• Preparing component parts for manufacturing or treatment
• Manufacturing component parts to complete the manufacturing or treatment process
• Using information and digital technology, complying with data protection and cyber‑security regulations and policies
• Applying standard operating procedures (SOPs) for optical products
• Applying repair practices and techniques to optical products
• Selecting tools and equipment to manufacture and repair optical products
• Planning work sequence to support effective use of time and resources in the manufacturing process
• Producing customer orders from online, telephone and face‑to‑face requests
• Checking and calibrating tools and equipment
• Interpreting work instructions, including optical prescriptions and manufacturer guidance for component parts
• Conducting supplier and credit processes
• Applying safe systems of work and control measures
• Applying health and safety procedures in compliance with regulations and standards
• Applying team‑working principles

• 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; ensure you can travel to the store location daily, taking salary and other factors into account
• GCSE in 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

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Logical thinking

Specsavers is a truly talented organisation and the world's largest privately‑owned optical group, operating in over 10 countries with more than 37,000 colleagues worldwide. We are a revolutionary, dynamic, family business that continues to grow and thrive.

• 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