Marine Trade Jobs in New Orleans, LA
Pipe welders, pipefitters, structural welders, and shipfitters — a market AMS recruits from.
Marine work in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans has been a shipbuilding and repair center on the lower Mississippi for generations, with active repair yards on the Harvey Canal and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. It's part of the Louisiana market AMS recruits from.
Demand here runs on the river. The Lower Mississippi is one of the nation's largest cargo corridors, and the barge, towboat, and repair ecosystem serving it generates steady structural and pipe renewal work — while the port, refineries, and fabricators compete for the same hands. All seven of the Navy's private shipbuilders report trouble recruiting and keeping craft workers (GAO, 2025), so a qualified New Orleans tradesperson has options. AMS is one: it recruits all four of its crafts from this market at $35–$40/hr plus overtime, travel with per diem common, with active crews a short reach west in Houma.
Public-record market activity, not AMS clients. Cost of living here runs about 6% below the national average — your paycheck goes further.
The trades AMS hires in New Orleans
Work marine trades in New Orleans
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