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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 “Optomechanical Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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