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