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