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