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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 “Optomechanical Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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