Will “Optical Technician” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
71% Chance of Automation
“Optical Technician” will maybe be replaced by robots.
This job is ranked #391 out of #702. A higher ranking (i.e., a lower number) means the job is less likely to be replaced.
Care to share? Click for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or XING. 👍
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.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription 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.
- 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.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- 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.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
Related Technology & Tools
- Pupillometers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Bushing pullers
- Flat nose pliers
- End piece pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Autorefractors
- Contact lens tweezers
- Snellen eye charts
- Bracing pliers
- Credit card processing machines
- Personal computers
- Dial calipers
- Digital calipers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Chain nose pliers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Focimeters
- Straight screwdrivers
- Angling pliers
- Lens clocks
- Optical screwdrivers
- Optometric lensometers
- Half-round files
- Frame warmers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Laptop computers
- Digital pupilometers
- Desktop computers
- Millimeter rules
- Lens analyzers
- Cash registers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Lens files
- Snipe nose pliers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Hex wrenches
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Microsoft Office
- First Insight MaximEyes
- Point of sale POS software
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel