Optical Engineering Technician

NL Staffing; City of Pewaukee, Town of Brookfield (WI, WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NL Staffing in Pewaukee, Wisconsin is seeking a hands-on production specialist to build and tune highly sensitive optical systems, troubleshoot electromechanical assemblies, and perform testing on lab gear such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, RF meters, and signal generators.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of technical experience, can read schematics, maintain a bill of materials, and write production work instructions for manufacturing environments in photonics, optics, or semiconductor

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of technical experience in optics, photonics, or semiconductor instrumentation.
• Ability to read schematics and maintain a bill of materials.
• Experience writing production work instructions.

Responsibilities

• Build and tune highly sensitive optical systems in a hands-on production setting.
• Troubleshoot electromechanical assemblies and perform testing.
• Operate lab equipment (oscilloscopes, power supplies, RF power meters, signal generators) and related shop tools.

Job description

This is a hands on production role so the target candidate spends their day building and tuning highly sensitive optical systems, troubleshooting electromechanical assemblies and testing. 5 to 10 years of technical experience who is comfortable on lab gear like oscilloscopes, power supplies, RF power meters and signal generators, plus shop tools or any experience with spectroscopy, photonics, optics or semiconductor instrumentation background who can read schematics, maintain a bill of material and write production work instructions.