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