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