Full-Time
Inside Plant Access Tech II
Posted on 10/6/2025
Altice USA
1,001-5,000 employees
Cable, fiber, and broadband provider
No salary listed
El Dorado, AR, USA
In Person
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- High School Diploma or equivalent; technical school certification, equivalent college courses, or on the job experience.
- Minimum of 6 months success as an Access Tech I and in good standing.
- SCTE Broadband transport specialist certification or equivalent.
- Knowledge of test equipment including Analog and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) analyzers, optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR), etc.
- Familiar with optical splice patch panels, optical couplers, and appropriate optical connector handling and cleaning procedures.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Must be able to participate in after-hours emergency response stand-by.
- Ability to work flexible work hours, including evenings, weekends, holidays, and overtime as required as well as 24 hours standby when needed.
- Clean and valid Driver's License with ability to travel to other work locations as necessary.
- The employee is required to utilize all safety equipment and protocol to maintain a safe environment ensuring all work-related tasks are performed in a manner that follows Company and OSHA safety rules and regulations. The employee is occasionally required to climb, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 70 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is subject to occasionally working aloft.
- Act as primary point of contact in determining source of signal impairments in partnership with field and Network Operation Center (NOC) employees to facilitate quick resolution of issues identified.
- Install and align satellite dishes, including fine tuning of feed horns and replacement of low noise block converters.
- Install, replace, and align various types of off-air antennas for very high frequency (VHF) and ultra-high frequency (UHF) television and radio reception.
- Utilize computer software and test equipment for variety of measurements including: satellite alignment, Radio Frequency levels, signal to noise, carrier to noise, low frequency disturbances, composite triple beat, composite and discrete second order beat, depth of modulation and audio deviation.
- Partner with network engineers to facilitate proper operation, maintenance, and restoration of high speed data network.
- Build and operate cable modem termination systems, cable modems, and basic networking equipment. Maintain, adjust and document video carrier levels, audio video ratio, depth of modulation, audio deviation.
- Perform infrared testing on electrical switch gear, breaker panels and schedule maintains / repairs based on finding. Generate the associated reporting for supervisor / manager review.
- Setup and operation of Headend equipment including but not limited to: signal processors, modulators, demodulators, satellite receivers, integrated receiver descramblers, digital receivers, and transcoders, combining and splitting networks, laser transmitters, Fiber optic receivers.
- Responsible for monitoring Headend cooling and coordinates with air-conditioning specialists to maintain proper system operation.
- Install, test and maintain emergency alert systems and backup powering systems- including Generators, Uninterruptible Power Supplies, and temporary feeds and support after-hours emergency response stand-by.
- Responsible for ensuring proper Optical Transport Network (OTN) operation and that the maintenance schedule is followed.
Altice USA provides broadband internet, digital television, VoIP phone services, and mobile plans under the Optimum brand to about 4.6 million residential and business customers across 21 states. Its core offering is high-speed internet delivered over a 100% fiber-optic network aimed at faster, more reliable speeds, with options for bundled or standalone services. Revenue comes from monthly subscription fees from customers. The company differentiates itself by committing to a fully fiber-optic network to boost speed and reliability and by offering a wide range of services—internet, TV, phone, and mobile—under one brand. Its goal is to connect homes and businesses with dependable communications and to grow its fiber network and customer base.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bethpage, Tennessee
Founded
2015
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Fiber network expansion captures market share from fixed wireless and traditional cable competitors.
- Nexstar programming partnership reduces churn and improves customer satisfaction across TV platform.
- Mobile bundling with broadband and TV increases customer lifetime value and cross-sell opportunities.
What critics are saying
- Verizon Fios expansion steals 200,000 broadband subscribers via superior fiber speeds in overlapping markets.
- FCC 100/20 Mbps minimums expose 30% of legacy network as substandard, forcing costly upgrades.
- T-Mobile 5G home internet captures 10% of mobile and fixed wireless overlap customers at half price.
What makes Altice USA unique
- 100% fiber-optic network deployment across 21-state footprint enhances speed and reliability competitively.
- Adeia IP license agreement enables advanced content discovery and personalization for Optimum subscribers.
- Asset-backed financing demonstrates strong collateral value and capital access for infrastructure investment.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Performance Bonus
Tuition Reimbursement
Company News
When the music stops, read the fine print. March 23, 2026 Something is shifting in the markets. Inflation expectations hit 5.2% last week in the US, the highest since March 2023. Three weeks ago the bond market was pricing in rate cuts. Now the probability of a Fed rate hike by year end (24.6%) is more than three times the probability of a cut (7.5%). Fed fund futures have pushed the next expected cut all the way out to October 2027. That shift is showing up in US credit. Only 26% of leveraged loans sit above par, down from roughly 65% earlier this year. Software names make up just 1% of that number. And Morningstar put out a statistic last week that deserves more attention: over the past 12 months, 16 of 17 US private credit rating downgrades to default or selective default were distressed exchanges. Not formal filings. Not orderly processes. Negotiated outcomes where the documentation determined who got paid and who didn't. That's the picture in America, but if you think Europe is insulated, think again. As I wrote in the Financial Times last week, the European market has seen a sharp rise in liability management exercises over the past two years: Altice France, Altice International, Ardagh, Victoria, Selecta, Hunkemöller. Borrowers are now going further than just using covenant flexibility. Altice USA filed a lawsuit against a group of major creditors including Apollo, Ares, and BlackRock, arguing that their cooperation agreement amounts to an illegal cartel. If that argument succeeds in a US court, expect European issuers to bring the same playbook across the Atlantic. If that doesn't work, there's always the coop blocker to fall back on - it's not cleared in Europe yet, but if history is anything to go by, borrowers and sponsors won't stop trying. This is the pattern on both sides of the pond. Borrowers restructure through liability management exercises, exchange offers, and consent solicitations. If something doesn't work, the finance team will draft around it in the next deal. Every one of those transactions turns on what the credit agreement actually says: subordination mechanics, basket capacity, intercreditor provisions. Meanwhile, AI continues to threaten disription. According to the restructuring newsletter Petition, a tweet went viral last week claiming AI can now draft legal contracts better than $800/hour lawyers. The restructuring community's reply went for the jugular: "ok now do the Kirkland & Ellis Superpriority Credit Agreement and Exit Consent to Existing First Lien Credit Agreement." Like all jokes there is a kernel of truth there - a template NDA and a live covenant negotiation in a distressed deal are different universes. And right now, credit professionals on both sides of the Atlantic are embroiled in the latter. AI cannot read these risks for you. Some liability management exercises are more marathon than sprint. Take The LYCRA Company - it filed Chapter 11 last week after seven years of serial restructuring transactions stacked on top of each other: acquisition debt, mezzanine enforcement, an IP drop-down, a failed sale, a change of control trust, and a plan with tiered penny warrants and distribution waterfalls. EBITDA down 67% in two years. Talk about kicking the can. The people who can read these documents are making the calls. Everyone else is relying on someone else's summary. On either side of the Atlantic, that's no longer a shortcut you can afford.
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