Local 474 journeymen carry the full marine construction ticket. Below is the craft breakdown — every skill the members bring to the job.
§ 01 · Craft
The foundation of every port, bridge and pier we build. Local 474 crews drive timber, steel H-pile, sheet pile, and cast-in-place concrete. Diesel hammer. Hydraulic. Vibratory. Rated up to 500,000 ft-lbs of blow energy on the largest bridge foundation work in the region.
§ 02 · Craft
Local 474 operates one of the only union-run commercial dive programs on the East Coast, out of the Hammonton training tank. Surface-supplied air and mixed gas. Full-face masks. Wet bells. Every diver is a journeyman first — carpenter, welder, or rigger — before they go below.
§ 03 · Craft
Ferry terminals, cargo wharves, marina piers, floating docks, fender systems and mooring dolphins. Timber, composite and cast-in-place concrete decks — engineered to outlive the next generation of longshore workers who'll use them.
§ 04 · Craft
The safest picks on the East Coast are the ones run by 474. Critical picks. Tandem lifts. Barge-to-shore transfers. NCCCO-certified riggers and signal persons on every job — trained on hand signals, radio procedures and load charts before they touch a jobsite.
§ 05 · Craft
Topside SMAW and FCAW on sheet pile, H-pile, and steel deck. Wet welding underwater on piles, hulls, jackets and outfall pipe. Every welder tested at the Hammonton training center — AWS D1.1, D3.6, and Navy MIL-STD qualifications.
§ 06 · The rest of the ticket
Beyond the five core crafts, Local 474 members carry the wider marine construction ticket — the specialty work most trades subcontract out.
Sheet-pile and braced cellular cofferdam construction for bridge foundations and outfall structures.
Steel, vinyl and composite sheet piling — installation, extraction, tie-back walls and anchor systems.
Pier rehab, fender system replacement, scour protection, underwater pile jacketing.
Removal of decommissioned piers, bulkheads, timber cribs and abandoned structures.
Monopile and jacket foundation installation, cable protection, met-mast work. GWO-qualified.
Municipal and industrial outfall pipe installation, diffuser assembly, saltwater intake screens.
Rigging support for hopper and clamshell dredges, pipeline anchoring, spoil-site berm construction.
Vessel salvage, cargo recovery, wreck marking and emergency response through 474's dive roster.
§ Next step
Four years, 4,000 hours, zero tuition. Full journeyman rate by year four, medical from day one, and a pension you can actually retire on.