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