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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 “Lead Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Office
Web browser software
Data acquisition software
Computer aided design CAD software
Word processing software
Microsoft Excel
Statistical analysis software
SAP
ZEMAX Optical Design Program
The MathWorks MATLAB
Computer aided manufacturing CAM software
Database software
Image processing software