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