Supervisor

Any supervisor should excel at:
- Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
- Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
- Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Controller

Controllers are expected to be good at:
- Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
- Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
- Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
- Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Other work activities related to Photonics technicians
- Monitoring inventory levels and ordering supplies as necessary.
- Maintaining cleaning working environments, according for cleaning room standards.
- Testing or performing failure analysis for optomechanical or optoelectrical products, according to testing plans.
- Assisting scientists or engineers in the conducting of photonic experiments.
- Performing diagnostic analyses of processing steps, using analytical or metrological tools, such as microscopy, profilometry, or ellipsometry devices.
- Mixing, pouring, or using processing chemicals or gases according to safety standards or established operating procedures.
- Designing, building, or modifying fixtures used to assembling parts.
- Laying out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
- Assisting engineers in the development of new products, fixtures, tools, or processes.
- Assembling or adjusting parts or related electrical units of prototypes to preparing for testing.
- Splicing fibers, using fusion splicing or other techniques.