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