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