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