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