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