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