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