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