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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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