Good salary, but management and staffing issues - Distrubution Control Engineer National Grid Employee Review

1.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Few and far better these days but the salary is good!

Cons

Very poor managment of the Control Room, Network Operation Managers cant seem to keep enough people in the control room to have full staffing levels on shift! The treatment of staff within the control center is so poor that even newly authorised control engineers are leaving for other roles within the business and happy to take pay cuts to do so! Network operation managers are seen to choose who they wish to bully within the room for no apparent reason, especially those who are part or have been part of training schemes! As an essential part of the business you would think the management of the control center would be at the top of the priority list for National Grid but this doesnt seem to be the case.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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