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Job Description

Build, install, test, or maintain optical or fiber optic equipment, such as lasers, lenses, or mirrors, using spectrometers, interferometers, or related equipment.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-3029.08

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Photonics Technicians”.

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Tasks for “Engineering Technician (Engineering Tech)”

Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Assemble devices or equipment to be used in green technology applications, including solar energy, high efficiency solid state lighting, energy management, smart buildings, or green processes.
Recommend optical or optic equipment design or material changes to reduce costs or processing times.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
Set up or operate assembly or processing equipment, such as lasers, cameras, die bonders, wire bonders, dispensers, reflow ovens, soldering irons, die shears, wire pull testers, temperature or humidity chambers, or optical spectrum analyzers.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Assemble or adjust parts or related electrical units of prototypes to prepare for testing.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
Build photonics tools to be applied to electrical grids to detect hot spots, such as failing insulators or conductors.
Document procedures, such as calibration of optical or fiber optic equipment.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Adjust or maintain equipment, such as lasers, laser systems, microscopes, oscilloscopes, pulse generators, power meters, beam analyzers, or energy measurement devices.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.

Related Technology & Tools

Positioning stages
Safety glasses
Gas lasers
Phase-shifting interferometers
Semiconductor detectors
Plasma strippers
Spectrometers
Die bonders
Optical spectrum analyzers
Rapid thermal annealers RTA
Wavelength meters
Bit error rate testers BERT
Electron cyclotron resonance ECR reactive ion etchers RIE
Ellipsometers
Reflow ovens
Laser welders
Isolators
Signal generators
Excimer lasers
Wire pull testers
Chemical vapor deposition CVD systems
Fusion splicers
Shearing interferometers
Atomic force microscopes AFM
Coordinate measuring machines CMM
Twyman-Green interferometers
Biosafety cabinets
Hardness testers
Humidity chambers
Monochromators
Contact profilometers
Dataloggers
Binocular light compound microscopes
Fiber polishers
Personal computers
Digital logic probes
Liquid dye lasers
Semiconductor parameter analyzers
Analog oscilloscopes
Calipers
Autocollimators
Spherometers
Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Optical alignment scopes
Wire saws
Laboratory forceps
Diode lasers
Solid state lasers
Die shears
Laser marking machines
Cutoff saws
Digital logic analyzers
Lab jacks
Computerized numerical control CNC band saws
Wafer bonding systems
Laser heat treatment equipment
Ion lasers
Magnifiers
Micrometers
Computerized numerical control CNC lathes
Photoelectric power meters
Optical comparators
Spectrophotometers
Micropositioners
Vacuum deposition systems
Depth gauges
Computerized numerical control CNC machining centers
Bench refractometers
Optical power meters
Digital oscilloscopes
Optical mounts
Soldering irons
Logic pulsers
Abrasive grinding machines
Electron beam evaporators
Fabry-Perot interferometers
Wire bonders
Scanning electron microscopes SEM
Fiber optic fault locators
Laser drills
Multifunction digital multimeters
Fire extinguishers
Mechanical steppers
Sputter deposition systems
Oscilloscopes
Common path interferometers
Michelson interferometers
Collimators
Diffractometers
Fiber cleavers
Chemical protective face shields
Computerized numerical control CNC drill presses
Protective gowns
Vernier micrometers
Temperature chambers
Laser cutting machines
Optical rails
Die saws
Hand calculators
Non contact profilometers
Protective gloves
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