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