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