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