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