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.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

Writing proposals for securing external funding or to partner with other companies.
Supervising technologists or technicians engaged in nanotechnology researching or production.
Synthesizing, processing, or characterizing nanomaterials, using advanced tools or techniques.
Identifying new applications for existing nanotechnologies.
Providing technical guidance or assistance to customers on topics such as starting up, maintaining, or using nanosystems.
Generating high resolution images or measuring force distance curves, using techniques such as atomic force microscopy.
Preparing reports, delivering presentations, or participating in the programs reviewing activities for communicating engineering results or recommendations.
Preparing nanotechnology related invention disclosures or patent applications.
Developing processes or identifying equipment needed for pilot or commercial nanoscale scale production.