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Production Lab Tech - Manufacturing (3-DAY SHIFTS +differential!)

National Vision

Plano, TXFull-time$17.05/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$17.05/hr
Location
Plano, TX
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

National Vision is hiring Production Lab Techs for its growing optical manufacturing facility, with entry-level and experienced openings across multiple departments. Technicians help move customer job orders through production by observing, sorting, and organizing orders and performing department-specific tasks. Night shifts are available on three-day schedules, with four days off. No specific education or experience is required for entry-level candidates; related experience is desirable.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Job Order SortingRF ScanningMachine OperationLens WashingLens CoatingLens InspectionUltrasonic CleaningSandblastingLens EdgingLens TintingLens MountingOptical InspectionEnglish

Qualifications

No Specific Education RequiredNo Specific Experience RequiredMass Production ExperienceMachine Operation ExperienceAssembly ExperienceRelated or Optical Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
401(k) Match
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance

Full job description

National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,100 stores. We operate four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Opticals inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

Our optical manufacturing facility is growing! We're excited to offer new openings for both ENTRY level AND EXPERIENCED optical technicians.

Schedules: FT positions available on our night shifts. These shifts work 3 days/week with 4 days off. Perfect for those wanting to restructure non-work hours or minimize commutes.

  • Shift 2A: Sundays through Tuesdays (3:30 pm - 4:00 am)

  • Shift 2B: Wednesdays through Fridays (3:30 pm - 4:00 am)

Pay & extras: Starts at $17.05 entry level (includes 10% shift differential). PLUS extra bi-weekly bonus opportunities. We also have a generous PTO plan and many other benefits.

Our associates are responsible for performing a variety of duties, depending on their assigned department and lab needs. Production Lab Techs help expedite job orders throughout the manufacturing process in a timely and efficient manner in order to serve our customers.

Responsibilities involve observing data on job orders, sorting and organizing job orders, RF scanning and other department specific tasks.

We have production positions available in multiple departments.

Surface duties include:

  • Machine operation

  • Lens washing and Backside coating, machine loading

  • Blocking and Deblocking

AR duties include:

  • Sorting lenses, cleaning and inspecting

  • Using ultrasonic cleaner

  • Loading lenses in sectors and machines; removing and returning lenses to job trays, visually inspecting

  • Operating and cleaning AR coating machine

  • Sandblasting sectors and panels

Finish duties include:

  • Sorting trays, edging, beveling

  • Tinting lenses to specified color

  • Mounting - inserting lenses into various frames, clean and visually inspect

  • Final inspection - check lens for defects, correct power, axis, prism and compliance with ANSI standards

  • Shipping - scanning, bagging, sorting and preparing customer orders

  • No specific education required

  • No specific experience required for entry level but prior mass production, machine operation, or assembly experience is preferred

  • Prior related or optical experience is desirable

  • Must be able to read and write English

National Vision offers a competitive benefits package. Some of the benefits include:

  • Generous Paid-Time-Off (PTO) policy

  • BONUS opportunities - including biweekly lab production bonus

  • 401k with company match

  • Health Insurance (one HSA option)

  • Dental Insurance

  • Flex Spending Account

  • Vision benefits

  • Life Insurance

  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance

  • Referral bonus program

  • Wellness Plan incentives

  • Other insurance options, employee assistance and much more

About National Vision Holdings, Inc.

National Vision Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYE) is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,100 stores in 38 states and Puerto Rico. With a mission of helping people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible, the company operates four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses (https://www.americasbest.com) , Eyeglass World (https://www.eyeglassworld.com) , and Vista Opticals inside select Fred Meyer stores (https://www.nationalvision.com/brands/) and on select military bases (https://www.nationalvision.com/brands/) , and e-commerce websites, offering a variety of products and services for customers’ eye care needs. For more information, please visit www.nationalvision.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,591 open Manufacturing Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$17.05/hr
  • Texas median$21–25/hr25 hourly ranges
  • US median$24–28/hr771 hourly ranges

This rate, $17.05/hr, is 29% below the Texas median midpoint ($24/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Manufacturing Technician hourly ranges in Texas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 106 open Manufacturing Technician jobs in Texas and 1,591 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
Manufacturing Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (877 postings).
Education
2 of the 1,591 open Manufacturing Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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