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