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