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