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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 “Coating Manager”

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

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

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