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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”
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- 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.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- 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.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Pupillometers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Frame warmers
- Optometric lensometers
- Digital calipers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Half-round files
- Bracing pliers
- Hex wrenches
- Autorefractors
- Lens clocks
- Cash registers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Flat nose pliers
- Laptop computers
- Snellen eye charts
- Personal computers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Straight screwdrivers
- Bushing pullers
- Millimeter rules
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Lens files
- Cold-bend pliers
- Focimeters
- Dial calipers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Lens analyzers
- Credit card processing machines
- Contact lens tweezers
- Digital pupilometers
- Chain nose pliers
- End piece pliers
- Angling pliers
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- Microsoft Word
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- Point of sale POS software
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- Microsoft Office
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