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