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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2081.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,860.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 75,270 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Opticians, Dispensing”.
Also Known As…
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Optometric Technician
- Optometric Assistant
- Optician
- Optical Technician
- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Licensed Optician
- Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)
- Dispensing Optician
- Contact Lens Technician
- Certified Optician
- Optician Apprentice
- Optical Manager
- Optical Dispenser
- Optical Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
Tasks for “Contact Lens Fitter”
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- 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.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
Related Technology & Tools
- Snellen eye charts
- Optical cutting pliers
- Optical screwdrivers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Dial calipers
- Frame warmers
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- End piece pliers
- Millimeter rules
- Autorefractors
- Hex wrenches
- Personal computers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Lens aligning pliers
- Angling pliers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Chain nose pliers
- Desktop computers
- Optometric lensometers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Digital pupilometers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Laptop computers
- Credit card processing machines
- Cold-bend pliers
- Half-round files
- Lens analyzers
- Lens files
- Focimeters
- Cash registers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Digital calipers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Lens clocks
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Flat nose pliers
- Bracing pliers
- Bushing pullers
- Pupillometers
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Microsoft Word
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- First Insight MaximEyes
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- Microsoft Excel
- Intuit QuickBooks
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Point of sale POS software
- Microsoft Office
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus