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