Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026
Clean Harbors is an environmental and industrial services company headquartered in Norwell, Massachusetts, specializing in the collection, treatment, recycling and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, emergency spill response and industrial cleaning. Founded in 1980 by Alan McKim, it runs hundreds of locations and more than 100 waste disposal facilities in the US and Canada, owns Safety-Kleen, the largest re-refiner of used oil in North America, and operates HPC-Industrial. It hires hazmat and field service technicians, chemists, equipment operators, CDL tanker and route drivers, mechanics, and compliance and operations managers.
It is hiring: 1,190 open roles, 574 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 15% below the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Norwell, United States
- Founded
- 1980
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Revenue
- $6B2025 · SEC
- Subsidiaries
- 1 in 1 countryUnited States 1 · GLEIF
- Listing
- NYSE: CLH
- Open roles
- 1,190 in 372 citiesAlion job postings
- Website
- cleanharbors.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 1,190 open roles at Clean Harbors. Clean Harbors is headquartered in Norwell, United States. It was founded in 1980. The median pay stated in its open roles is $56k, across 471 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
78/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitycleanharbors.com · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail is rejected
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders soft-fail (~all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · DigiCert Inc
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Enforced, ready for browser preload
Good
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Field & Service is the largest family, 69 of open roles.
574Posted in 30 days48% of open roles are fresh
4%Remote roles42 of 1,190
3Roles in AI0% of open roles
372Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
3,206 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
United States3,206On site
Canada195On site
India83On site
Poland16On site
Puerto Rico3On site
Remote, from elsewhere42Possible
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 42.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Clean Harbors30 days
Market, same roles32 days
Alion signals0-100
Demand91
Pay49
Your chance60
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 950 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
B
78 / 100Clean Harbors scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 125 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 89% have gone stale and 2% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 30 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale89%
Reposted2%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
Field & Service69
Management7
Industrial Engineering5
Science & Research5
Operations4
Administrative2
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
High School Diploma 70%Bachelor's Degree 29%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 1%Associate's Degree 1%Master's Degree 1%
Experience asked: 3.4 years on average, in 373 postings. 491 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
401k plan98983%
Veteran hiring program1059%
Growth opportunities272%
Professional development252%
Life insurance192%
Retirement plans50%
Home office40%
Flexible schedule40%
Cafeteria30%
Contract type
Internship 48Contract 3Part-Time 3
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 15% below the market estimate for the same roles.
$56kMedianmarket estimate $66k
$48k – $64kTypical rangeUSD a year
$250kHighest paying roleOTR Class A Owner Operator
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $66k
Intern35$40k$40k – $46k
Junior112$50k$46k – $56k
Middle29$62k$54k – $84k
Senior21$110k$83k – $120k
Lead3$83k$52k – $83k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 372 cities in 4 countries.
372Cities
4Countries
NorwellBusiest site
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Ranked #2 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
Revenue of $6B in 2025. +2.4% on the year before. Net income $391M.
$6BRevenue2025 · +2.4%
$391MNet income2025 · −2.8%
Revenue by yearas filed, with the net income
2025$6Bnet income $391M
2024$5.9Bnet income $402.3M
2023$5.4Bnet income $377.9M
2022$5.2Bnet income $411.7M
2021$3.8Bnet income $203.2M
2020$3.1Bnet income $134.8M
2019$3.4Bnet income $97.7M
2018$3.3Bnet income $65.6M
Sources: SEC
5843 public contracts won, $111.7M in all. $19.1M of it in the last 12 months.
5,843Contracts
$111.7MValue
$19.1MIn 12 months
1Buyer countries
Biggest buyers
Department of the Navy
United States · 11 public contracts
$17M
U.S. Coast Guard
United States · 13 public contracts
$11.2M
Department of the Air Force
United States · 6 public contracts
$9.5M
Latest awards
U.S. Coast Guard, United States · 2026-10
$30k
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, United States · 2026-10
$17k
U.S. Coast Guard, United States · 2026-10
$100k
Sources: USAspending (US federal) - award notices naming the company's legal entities as the winner
Technologies named in job postings at Clean Harbors over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
98Technologies in use
994Postings analysed
75/100Stack modernityAI adopter
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once
