Gas Main Engineer - Gas Main Engineer National Grid Employee Review

3.0
Sep 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work schedule and work life balance. Strong health insurance benefits. Job security, this is the sorta place they all talk about having you there in 20 years and many/most of the people have been.

Cons

Not a great company culture, very much the feeling that upper management is looking out more for the bottom line than employees. Poor existing company culture was made worse by lack of appropriate support or realistic goals for work, which lead to a defeatist attitude.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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