Optician (OJT)

OPTICIAN - Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices. - Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications. - Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements. - Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs. - Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions. - Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments. - Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands. - Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses. - Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses. - Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses. - 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 goods related to eyes, in general. - Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications. - Perform administrative duties, such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping. - Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses and fitting the lenses into frames. - Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses. - Supervise the training of student opticians. - Order and purchase frames and lenses. - Grind lens edges or apply coatings to lenses. - Repair damaged frames. - Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise. - Other duties assigned