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