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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”
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
Related Technology & Tools
- Optical screwdrivers
- Bracing pliers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Personal computers
- Digital calipers
- Bushing pullers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Flat nose pliers
- Millimeter rules
- Cold-bend pliers
- End piece pliers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Focimeters
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Digital pupilometers
- Frame warmers
- Cash registers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Dial calipers
- Laptop computers
- Snellen eye charts
- Half-round files
- Lens analyzers
- Chain nose pliers
- Credit card processing machines
- Pupillometers
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Lens clocks
- Angling pliers
- Lens files
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Hex wrenches
- Contact lens tweezers
- Optical cutting pliers
- Optometric lensometers
- Desktop computers
- Autorefractors
- Microsoft Excel
- Intuit QuickBooks
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- First Insight MaximEyes
- OfficeMate Software Solutions OfficeMate
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- Microsoft Office
- Point of sale POS software
- Microsoft Word
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus