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