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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
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Optical Assistant”
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- 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.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Repair damaged frames.
- 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.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- 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.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Laptop computers
- Angling pliers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Digital pupilometers
- Credit card processing machines
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- Focimeters
- Pupillometers
- Cash registers
- Flat nose pliers
- Digital calipers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Autorefractors
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Lens clocks
- Optometric lensometers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- End piece pliers
- Hex wrenches
- Lens files
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Bracing pliers
- Dial calipers
- Millimeter rules
- Contact lens tweezers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Half-round files
- Optical screwdrivers
- Snellen eye charts
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Frame warmers
- Personal computers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Lens analyzers
- Bushing pullers
- Desktop computers
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Excel
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