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It's all about the jobs when it comes to New Jersey's budding offshore wind industry.

At an event in South Jersey today, members of Governor Murphy's administration met with the winners of two new offshore wind projects to share details of their plans with the public and show off the kind of skilled jobs it'll generate.

Ted Goldberg reports.

The EAS Commercial Dive Center has already produced 12 full time divers just in time to help create New Jersey's offshore wind farms.

We opened this facility a little over two years ago, knowing that the growing offshore wind industry would require a skilled and highly trained workforce.

William Sproule works for the EAS Carpenters Union and says this facility is the only American dive school owned and operated by a union.

It's also the only training facility in the country to earn global offshore certifications.

Sproule welcomes state leaders today to tout the next generation of energy employees helping offshore wind get off the ground.

The Commercial dive school is ahead of its time with these accreditations with the state of the art training facility and the superior commercial dive instructors.

The Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters has proven its commitment to preparing our professional tradesmen and women for the construction of offshore wind.

This portfolio of projects collectively represent what offshore wind offers clean energy that will yield environmental benefits for generations to come.

Economic benefits to boost New Jersey's economy for decades and thousands of good paying, family sustaining jobs.

At the end of the day, this is about jobs.

It's about jobs here.

So it's like this.

And for and for the members of the building construction trades, it's about jobs in Paulsboro, DPW.

They're going to be making a lot of files about jobs in Lower Holloway's Creek in Salem County, where we're going to make towers.

The divers trained here will be hired by projects like Attentive Energy, which recently won a bid to build offshore wind farms off of New Jersey's shoreline.

With a 1.34 gigawatt project and potential power of 650,000 homes.

These aren't small numbers.

These are these are game changers.

While there may be challenges along the way.

This is New Jersey and we don't back down from a challenge.

Challenges like Orsted bailing on a project last Halloween.

Leaders remain optimistic that the state will meet clean energy goals set by Governor Murphy.

Offshore wind represents the biggest opportunity probably for New Jersey, for our economic future.

But surely for South Jersey, there is no bigger economic opportunity presents itself for thousands, if not tens of thousands of jobs and careers over the next 30, 5000 years.

The training courses here are 16 weeks long and cost $20,000 if you're not an existing union member.

But the starting salaries are pretty inviting in New Jersey.

Once you wrap up training and finish up an apprenticeship pile, drivers start at $100,000 a year with divers making more than that and playing a large role in New Jersey's energy future.

In Sicklerville, I'm Ted Goldberg.

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