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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 “Fiber Optic Technician”

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

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