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