How do they match: Photonics Technicians

  • Assist engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
  • 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.
  • Perform laser seam welding, heat treatment, or hard facing operations.
  • Repair or calibrate products, such as surgical lasers.
  • 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.
  • Set up or operate prototype or test apparatus, such as control consoles, collimators, recording equipment, or cables.
  • Test or perform failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to test plans.

  • Operate industrial equipment.
  • Analyze operational data to evaluate operations, processes or products.
  • Conduct quantitative failure analyses of operational data.
  • Document design or operational test results.
  • Maintain inventories of materials, equipment, or products.
  • Monitor the productivity or efficiency of industrial operations.