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