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