Senior Optician | Aerotek

Summary: With little direction, performs work of maximum degree of difficulty in supervising and participating in the fabrication and testing of precision optical components.

Description of Duties:

• Performs significant role in the development, coordination, execution and control of shop methods, systems, procedures, security and inventory of optics. 
• Consults with Principle Investigators, Program Managers, and scientific personnel on the fabrication of optical components and furnishes time and cost estimates as required. 
• Translates the designs of optical components into finished items which meet optical design specifications. 
• Organizes and directs the activities of supporting personnel, and provides them with job schedules and instructions. 
• Trains optical shop employees in optical fabrication and test procedures including safety precautions. 
• Conducts precision optical tests on optical components, and uses software analysis programs to interpret data for both qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
• Obtains and maintains comprehensive records on test data in order to apply test results to optical fabrication process to obtain final design figures and to provide data for final reporting. 
• Makes shop sketches or drawings of tooling and test systems to permit their fabrication. 
• Specifies and assembles sophisticated tooling and test apparatus for the fabrication and test of optical components appropriate to projects. 
• Prescribes procedures for the maintenance and overhaul of machine tools and supervises the overhaul, repair or modification to optical shop tooling.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ten years of experience in polishing and testing lenses, mirrors, flats and aspheres. 
• High school education with course work in algebra and trigonometry, supplemented by some college, trade or technical school training in related field or equivalent.

Additional Minimums:

• Comprehensive knowledge of optical principles, practices and techniques, along with some knowledge of the principles, practices and theories of management. 
• Comprehensive skill in applying optical grinding, polishing and figuring techniques to optical components. 
• Use and knowledge of specialized optical testing procedures, software and instrumentation. 
• Comprehensive skill in operating precision optical instruments. 
• Experienced leader with directing work teams.