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