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