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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 Optics Supervisor”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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