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