How do they match: Opticians, Dispensing

  • Opticians, Dispensing

  • Optical Assistant
  • Optical Dispenser
  • Optical Manager
  • Optical Technician
  • Optician
  • Optician Apprentice
  • Certified Optician
  • Dispensing Optician
  • Dispensing Optician Apprentice
  • Dispensing and Measuring Optician
  • Licensed Optical Dispenser
  • Licensed Optician
  • Licensed Dispensing Optician
  • Registered Optician

  • 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.

  • Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
  • Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
  • Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
  • Supervise the training of student opticians.