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