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