Great place to build a long-term career with strong values and supportive leadership - Quality Engineering Manager National Grid Employee Review

5.0
18 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

• Exceptional work-life balance with flexibility and strong support for personal well-being. • Supportive and approachable leadership that genuinely invests in employees’ growth. • Strong focus on safety, ethics, and community impact, making work feel meaningful. • Collaborative work culture, where cross-functional teams work well together and respect each other. • Stable organization with long-term vision, which offers job security and structured processes. • Diverse and inclusive environment, with ongoing efforts to promote equity and representation. • Excellent benefits package, including healthcare, retirement plans, and employee resources. • Management values quality and continuous improvement, creating a strong engineering culture. • Transparent communication from leadership about strategy, goals, and business direction. • Feeling of purpose, knowing the work directly supports critical infrastructure and millions of customers.

Cons

• No major concerns from my experience so far. • Large organization structure means decisions can sometimes take time, but this is expected in a company of this scale. • Continuous improvements are always ongoing, and the company is receptive to feedback.

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1.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
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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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