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