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