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