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