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