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