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