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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 Technologist”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Office
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