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