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