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