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