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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 “Test Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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