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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 Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Optical Dispenser”
- 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.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Frame warmers
- Angling pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Half-round files
- Chain nose pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Lens aligning pliers
- Digital pupilometers
- Millimeter rules
- Cash registers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Flat nose pliers
- Focimeters
- Digital calipers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- Lens analyzers
- Credit card processing machines
- Autorefractors
- Lens files
- Snellen eye charts
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Pupillometers
- End piece pliers
- Lens clocks
- Optical cutting pliers
- Laptop computers
- Dial calipers
- Optometric lensometers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Bracing pliers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Bushing pullers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Hex wrenches
- Straight screwdrivers
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