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