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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 “Lead Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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