Jay Cashman, Inc.

Jay Cashman, Inc. isn't the kind of contractor a homeowner calls for a bathroom remodel or a leaky pipe. It's a heavy civil and marine construction company headquartered at 549 South Street in Quincy, working in dredging, offshore energy, prestressed concrete storage tanks, and mechanical construction, and running a family of affiliated companies that includes Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting, Sterling Equipment, Patriot Renewables, IPC Lydon, and Preload International. The company says it grew from a startup Jay M. Cashman founded in 1969 into an organization of more than 1,000 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, with Cashman still chairman today. The paper trail backs up its size and standing more than it describes what it's like to be a customer. Wikipedia calls it one of the largest privately held contracting firms in the northeastern U.S., and the Blue Book directory has carried its Marine Construction and Dredging Contractors listing since 2003. Its Better Business Bureau file carries an A+ grade, though Cashman hasn't sought BBB accreditation, and it's listed as a member of the Quincy Chamber of Commerce. Actual customer commentary is thin. Google shows a 5-star average from just four ratings, and the one specific comment on record, posted earlier this year, praises its "managers, supervisors and crews" without describing a particular job — not much to judge a hire on either way. Two things are worth asking about directly before engaging Cashman. A 2023 federal qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act names Jay Cashman, Inc., Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting, and Sterling Equipment as defendants in New Hampshire district court — an allegation, not a proven finding, but worth raising. And the numbers describing the company itself don't line up: LinkedIn lists only 45 employees, $40 million in revenue, and a 1965 founding, while the company's own site and Wikipedia describe a 1969 start and a workforce over 1,000 — a gap worth clarifying before assuming you know its scale. This is a name for large-scale marine, dredging, or heavy-civil work — port authorities, government agencies, energy developers — rather than a resource for typical residential jobs; confirm directly that Cashman takes on work at your scale before reaching out.