Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. 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.
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- Dispensing Optician
- Licensed Optician
- Optometric Assistant
- Certified Optician
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- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Optometric Technician
- Optical Technician
- Contact Lens Technician
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- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- 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.
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- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- 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.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to 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.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
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- collect clinical data
- communicate technical information
- identify body response variations
- maintain dental or medical records
- make presentations on health or medical issues
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- collect clinical data
- communicate technical information
- identify body response variations
- maintain dental or medical records
- make presentations on health or medical issues
- measure for eyeglasses
- use interpersonal communication techniques
- use sales techniques
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- Health Care Specialist, Eye Specialist (Army - Enlisted)
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- Health Care Specialist, Eye Specialist (Army - Enlisted)
- Ophthalmic Apprentice (Air Force - Enlisted)
- Ophthalmic Craftsman (Air Force - Enlisted)
- Ophthalmic Helper (Air Force - Enlisted)
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- Ophthalmic Journeyman (Air Force - Enlisted)
- Ophthalmic Manager (Air Force - Enlisted)
- Ophthalmic Superintendent (Air Force - Enlisted)
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- Opthalmic Dispen Opt/Contact Lens
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- Optician Apprentice, Dispensing
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