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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”
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- 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.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- 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
- Credit card processing machines
- Pupillometers
- Personal computers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Millimeter rules
- Digital pupilometers
- Cash registers
- Focimeters
- Lens files
- End piece pliers
- Lens clocks
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Optometric lensometers
- Bushing pullers
- Flat nose pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Bracing pliers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Laptop computers
- Frame warmers
- Snellen eye charts
- Lens analyzers
- Half-round files
- Desktop computers
- Digital calipers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Hex wrenches
- Dial calipers
- Chain nose pliers
- Angling pliers
- Autorefractors
- Screw-holding tweezers
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- Microsoft Office
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