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