About This Role
This entry-level position places you at the practical heart of Cheshire Ethiopia’s eye care unit in Hawassa, where your primary focus will be the hands-on fabrication and assembly of eyeglasses and contact lenses. Working under an optometrist, you will translate prescriptions into finished optical devices, a role that suits detail-oriented fresh graduates eager to build technical craft skills within a respected NGO operating in the rehabilitation and disability sector.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The listing seeks a fresh graduate who can handle precision manual work, implying a need for steady hands, patience, and basic numeracy. While no prior experience is required, the employer likely values candidates with a background in optics, physics, or a related technical field, as the role involves grinding, polishing, and mounting lenses—skills that require both care and consistency.
How to Approach This Application
In your application, emphasize any hands-on laboratory or workshop experience, even from academic projects or volunteer work, to show you can manage delicate tasks. Highlight your reliability, attention to detail, and willingness to learn on the job, as Cheshire Ethiopia will likely prioritize a candidate who can work independently under minimal supervision once trained.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for a fresh graduate with a steady hand and an interest in medical device craftsmanship, and it is likely to be moderately competitive given its niche technical nature and location in Hawassa.
Job Title :-Assistant Optical technician
Work Unit: Eye Care unit
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Duty station:-Cheshire Ethiopia, Hawassa Rehabilitation Center
Salary: Based on the organization Salary Scale
Job Title :-Assistant Optical technician
Work Unit: Eye Care unit
Immediate supervisor:- Optometrist
Job Summary:- Under the general supervision of the Optometrist , the assistant Optical Technician is responsible for the administration of manufacturing or assembling eye glasses and contact lenses.
Specific duties and responsibilities
- Plans the daily activities and submit to the supervisor for approval.
- Create eye glasses and contact lenses as well as lenses for binoculars and other optical devices.
- Assemble and mount lenses in to frames or process other optical elements such as precision lens, polishers or grinders, center -edgers ,and lens mounters.
- Fills prescriptions given by ophthalmologists and optometrists, ensuring that the lenses refract light at the proper angle to allow the wearer to see more clearly
- Takes client’s eye measurement.
- Assists clients in choosing eye glasses and frames.
- Helps clients to decide which lens types are apt for them
- Advises clients on styles of eye wear that suit their needs.
- Fits clients for eye glasses and contact lenses
- Cuts, grinds, and polishes eye glasses, contact lenses, or other precision optical elements
- Assembles complete eye glasses
- Manage and precisely use machinery for grinding, cutting and polishing lenses.
- Crafts lenses for telescopes, binoculars, and other optical instruments.
- Keeps the machines and equipment clean and safe.
- Keep the client’s prescriptions and records up to date.
- Performs other related duties given by his/her supervisor.
Experience:
- 0 Years and skill in eye care service
Qualification:
- High school complete and one year training in optical technician
How To Apply
Cheshire Ethiopia is an Ethiopian Resident Charity works on rehabilitation and development of persons with disability and invites qualified applicants for the following post:-
Cheshire Ethiopia encourages persons with disability and women to apply.
Interested applicants can apply in person with their CV and required documents at Cheshire Hawassa Rehabilitation Center with in 7 working days from the date of advertizment.
For further information you can call 0920716704
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