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