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