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