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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
- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Licensed Optician
- Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)
- Dispensing Optician
- Contact Lens Technician
- Certified Optician
- Optician Apprentice
- Optical Technician
- Optical Manager
- Optical Dispenser
- Optical Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Optical Technician”
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact 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.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- 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.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
Related Technology & Tools
- Laptop computers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Pupillometers
- Lens analyzers
- Bushing pullers
- Autorefractors
- Snellen eye charts
- Snipe nose pliers
- Millimeter rules
- Credit card processing machines
- Flat nose pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Focimeters
- Half-round files
- Optometric lensometers
- Lens files
- Desktop computers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Cash registers
- Dial calipers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Digital calipers
- Angling pliers
- Personal computers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- End piece pliers
- Lens clocks
- Frame warmers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Chain nose pliers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Bracing pliers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Digital pupilometers
- Hex wrenches
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- First Insight MaximEyes
- Point of sale POS software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- Microsoft Excel