Description
Operate optical edging equipment to cut, bevel, groove, drill, and polish ophthalmic lenses to prescription and frame specifications; trace frames, block lenses, verify fit and quality, and prepare lenses for mounting.
Knowledge
Business and Management
- • Administration and Management
- • Customer and Personal Service
Manufacturing and Production
- • Production and Processing
Engineering and Technology
- • Mechanical
Mathematics and Science
- • Mathematics
Skills
Content
- • Reading Comprehension
Process
- • Critical Thinking
- • Monitoring
Technical Skills
- • Operations Monitoring
- • Operation and Control
- • Quality Control Analysis
Systems Skills
- • Judgment and Decision Making
Resource Management Skills
- • Time Management
Abilities
Verbal Abilities
- • Written Comprehension
Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities
- • Problem Sensitivity
- • Deductive Reasoning
- • Information Ordering
- • Category Flexibility
Perceptual Abilities
- • Flexibility of Closure
- • Perceptual Speed
Spatial Abilities
- • Visualization
Attentiveness
- • Selective Attention
Fine Manipulative Abilities
- • Arm-Hand Steadiness
- • Manual Dexterity
- • Finger Dexterity
Control Movement Abilities
- • Control Precision
- • Rate Control
Reaction Time and Speed Abilities
- • Reaction Time
- • Wrist-Finger Speed
Visual Abilities
- • Near Vision
- • Visual Color Discrimination
Auditory and Speech Abilities
- • Speech Recognition
Related specializations
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Related Pathways
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
