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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”

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.
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 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.
Assemble components of energy-efficient optical communications systems involving photonic switches, optical backplanes, or optoelectronic interfaces.
Maintain clean working environments, according to clean room standards.
Compute or record photonic test data.
Build prototype optomechanical devices for use in equipment such as aerial cameras, gun sights, or telescopes.
Monitor inventory levels and order supplies as necessary.
Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.
Fabricate devices, such as optoelectronic or semiconductor devices.
Optimize photonic process parameters by making prototype or production devices.
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.
Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
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.
Develop solar power sources for lasers used in fiber optics.
Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
Splice fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.
Perform diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
Mix, pour, or use processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
Lay out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
Terminate, cure, polish, or test fiber cables with mechanical connectors.
Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
Assist scientists or engineers in the conduct of photonic experiments.
Monitor mechanical factors, such as turbine load or strain information.
Assemble fiber optical, optoelectronic, or free-space optics components, subcomponents, assemblies, or subassemblies.
Design, build, or modify fixtures used to assemble parts.
Fabricate sensors to be used to control wind turbines.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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