Great Company / Salary / Benefits - Quantity Surveyor National Grid Employee Review

5.0
Aug 9, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Projects are meaningful and intend to impact positively on the climate. Work life balance is good (as long as you hit deadlines and get your work done you can be flexible). Cycle to Work Scheme. Some contracts allow you claim time from leaving your home Support for RICs / CPD Career opportunities and availability of secondments. Car scheme. No pressure to progress or move up the ladder (it's your own choice).

Cons

Sometimes the role isn't clearly defined and there can be a lot of crossing over of boundaries from different departments. Lack of external training (the majority of training is in-house), so extra quals can be hard to come by.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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