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