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