Anchor QEA

Engineering Services · Environmental Science
Truth index BSponsors visas
19Open roles
$102kMedian advertised pay$91k – $110k+2% vs market
50 daysTime to fillmedian of 13 closed roles
460EmployeesUS Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -12% in a year

Facts

as of Nov 15, 2026

Anchor QEA is an environmental consulting and engineering firm that provides services such as environmental engineering, permitting and planning, fish passage engineering and construction engineering. It hires junior and principal engineers and environmental planners, with offices in locations including Seattle, Irvine, Portland and Syracuse. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States.

It is hiring: 19 open roles, 0 of them posted in the last 30 days.

Headquarters
Seattle, United States
Founded
1997
Employees
460US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · -12% in a year
Open roles
19 in 11 citiesAlion job postings
Website
anchorqea.com

As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 19 open roles at Anchor QEA. Anchor QEA is headquartered in Seattle, United States. It was founded in 1997. The median pay stated in its open roles is $101k, across 8 postings that state pay.

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Trust

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What the registers and the postings say about this employer.

Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
75/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Domain in use
anchorqea.com: first seen in registries and web archives
since 2009
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices

Hiring

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Hiring slowly: few roles were posted lately.

Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 50 of open roles.

0%Remote roles0 of 19
11Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
30 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States30On site
Remote, from elsewhere0Rare
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Alion signals0-100
Demand30
Pay26
Your chance34
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+25%
Sep 14This week
Open roles a week: 16 then, 20 now
Are the postings real?
B
75 / 100Anchor QEA scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 50 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale100%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Industrial Engineering50▲
Administrative10▼
Enterprise Apps10▼
Operations10▼
Science & Research10▼
Finance5▲
Newest roles
Senior Sediment Remediation Design Engineer
In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Portland
Senior Sediment Remediation Design Engineer
≈ $87k – $164k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Atlanta
Restoration Engineer
≈ $82k – $156k per year (Estimated) · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Asheville
Unanet CRM Administrator
$124k per year · In office · Full-Time · Bachelor's Degree · Seattle
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 100%
Experience asked: 5.7 years on average, in 15 postings. 13 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Retirement plans1895%
401k plan1895%
Professional development211%
Relocation assistance211%
Contract type
Full-Time 19
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
View 19 jobsRoles matching my profile
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family

Pay

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What its postings pay, by level.

$102kMedianmarket estimate $99k
$91k – $110kTypical rangeUSD a year
$124kHighest paying roleUnanet CRM Administrator
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $99k
Senior4$101k$92k – $110k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year

Visa

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Named in the work visa registers of United States.

United StatesUS 0
0H-1B filings in 12 months
3Open roles in United States

In the register as Anchor QEA, Inc., Seattle, WA

Other sponsors in the same field
Geosyntec Consultants 49 filingsE2 Consulting Engineers 22 filingsKleinfelder 20 filingsHaley Aldrich 10 filings
See 3 open roles Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 12, 2025

Footprint

Hiring in 11 cities in 1 country.

11Cities
1Countries
SeattleBusiest site
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SiteTypeOpen rolesHires most forEngineering
Seattle United StatesHeadquarters5Industrial Engineering, Sales, Enterprise Apps20%
Portland United StatesPlant / site2Industrial Engineering0%
Irvine United StatesNot classified2Sales, Operations0%
Camillus United StatesPlant / site2Enterprise Apps, Industrial Engineering50%
Bellingham United StatesPlant / site2Industrial Engineering0%
Amesbury United StatesEngineering / R&D1Industrial Engineering0%
Asheville United StatesEngineering / R&D1Industrial Engineering0%
Tacoma United StatesNot classified1Industrial Engineering0%
All 11 offices
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers

Peers

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Ranked #9 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.

#CompanyHQOpen rolesSize
1Apex CompaniesRockville, United States1531001-5000
2BarrMinneapolis, United States105201-500
3SWCA Environmental ConsultantsPhoenix, United States491001-5000
4True EnvironmentalDenver, United States47201-500
5Weston SolutionsWest Chester, United States43201-500
6GZANorwood, United States41501-1000
7EnSafeMemphis, United States37201-500
8Environmental Science AssociatesSan Francisco, United States2151-200
9Anchor QEASeattle, United States19201-500
Anchor QEA competitors and alternatives
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Anchor QEA over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.

6Technologies in use
18Postings analysed
67/100Stack modernity
LanguagesPython 11%SQL 11%
Cloud & platformsPower BI 11%
Developer toolsAutoCAD 67%Microsoft Excel 6%
Practices & domainsWi-Fi 11%
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site

Milestones

1997
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press

Newsroom

top 6%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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