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