Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Installing electrical assemblies and wiring in aircraft camera housings and memory cards or film in cameras, following blueprints and using hand tools and soldering equipment.
• Calibrating and verifying accuracy of light meters, shutter diaphragm operation, or lens carriers, using timing instruments.
• Disassembling equipment for gaining access to defect, using hand tools.
• Adjusting cameras, photographic mechanisms, or equipment such as range and view finders, shutters, light meters, or lens systems, using hand tools.
• Cleaning and lubricating cameras and polishing camera lenses, using cleaning materials and working aids.
• Measuring parts for verifying specified dimensions or settings, such as camera shutter speed or light meter reading accuracy, using measuring instruments.
• Testing equipment performance, focus of lens system, diaphragm alignments, lens mounts, or film transports, using precision gauges.
• Examining cameras, equipment, processed film, or laboratory reports for diagnosing malfunction, using working aids and specifications.