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