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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”
- 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.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Frame warmers
- Bracing pliers
- Lens files
- Credit card processing machines
- Lens analyzers
- Bushing pullers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Chain nose pliers
- Autorefractors
- Pupillometers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Cash registers
- Digital calipers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Angling pliers
- Optometric lensometers
- Laptop computers
- Snellen eye charts
- End piece pliers
- Dial calipers
- Desktop computers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Focimeters
- Snipe nose pliers
- Hex wrenches
- Digital pupilometers
- Lens clocks
- Half-round files
- Millimeter rules
- Personal computers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Flat nose pliers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- Intuit QuickBooks
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- Microsoft Excel
- Point of sale POS software
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- First Insight MaximEyes
- Microsoft Word
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Microsoft Office