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