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