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