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