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