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