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