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Job Description
Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2081.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,860.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 75,270 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Opticians, Dispensing”.
Also Known As…
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Optometric Technician
- Optometric Assistant
- Optician
- Optical Technician
- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Licensed Optician
- Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)
- Dispensing Optician
- Contact Lens Technician
- Certified Optician
- Optician Apprentice
- Optical Manager
- Optical Dispenser
- Optical Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Dispensing and Measuring Optician”
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
Related Technology & Tools
- Lens analyzers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Pupillometers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Millimeter rules
- Flat nose pliers
- Cash registers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Credit card processing machines
- Digital pupilometers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Focimeters
- Bracing pliers
- End piece pliers
- Personal computers
- Dial calipers
- Chain nose pliers
- Laptop computers
- Autorefractors
- Digital calipers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Snellen eye charts
- Hex wrenches
- Optometric lensometers
- Lens clocks
- Half-round files
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Desktop computers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Bushing pullers
- Lens files
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Angling pliers
- Frame warmers
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Microsoft Office
- First Insight MaximEyes
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Microsoft Word
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- Point of sale POS software
- Microsoft Excel
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus