National Grid Careers, Benefits, Review

We're committed to creating a work environment where people are treated fairly and where everyone feels respected, valued and empowered to reach their full potential. Our mission is to build a business that represents, reflects and celebrates the cultures and communities we serve. We understand that strength lies in difference. Our ERGs support each other, and our organization, to become stronger. Here's a sample of these.

Enabling: Supporting and enabling employees impacted by disabilities or health challenges to reach their full potential and be their true self.

WiNG: Our community focusing on gender with the ambition is to promote the professional development of women, attracting and creating a network of talent to enable us to deliver our strategic priorities. 

ONE (faith): A group that specifically focuses on ethnic diversity. We support ethnic minority colleagues, or commonly known as BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) colleagues, as well as raising awareness of the different faith groups within the business via Faith@work.

Newnet: Provides learning, networking and development opportunities for new starters to help shape their career and gain an insight into how we operate. 

Pride: Our LGBTQ network, is an Employee Resource Group that supports LGBTQ colleagues, allies, friends and family. We are here as a resource to offer support, educate, and to celebrate our LGBTQ talent.

Grid for Good: This all about helping young people, aged 16-24, who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. Learn more about our flagship community investment programme.

Collectively, we share our experience, embrace our differences and celebrate the value that diversity brings to National Grid. Discover more about our mission to build an inclusive and diverse workforce.

Our business model
We are an international electricity and gas company based in the UK and northeastern US. We play a vital role in connecting millions of people safely, reliably and efficiently to the energy they use.

We are at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society – delivering clean energy to support our world long into the future.

We work with all our stakeholders to promote the development and implementation of sustainable, innovative and affordable energy solutions.

And we are proud that our work, and our people, underpin the prosperity and wellbeing of our customers, communities and investors.

What we believe

At National Grid we encourage everyone to respect others and value their diversity. To take ownership for driving performance. And to always be open and act with integrity in all relationships. Living these values makes sure we work as one team, one National Grid. Especially as collaboration is the norm.

It's vital that everyone contributes. After all, energy is essential to every community, the challenges never let up and the pace can be intense. On top of all that, we're determined to cement our reputation as a responsible, sustainable business and an industry leader. So we look for innovation and we expect high performance.

In return, we enhance the skills and capabilities of our people in a host of innovative ways. We help them excel in everything from health and safety to inclusion and diversity, from tackling climate change to delivering customer service. And we're big on recognition, rewarding those whose performance sets the standard we all strive for. At the same time, we know a healthy balance between work and life outside it benefits us all.

The result is an organisation full of people who respect, value and support each other while always challenging themselves to achieve more. People who are equipped to make the most of all the career opportunities we offer. Our diverse teams are packed with experience and expertise, and are proud to have safety as their number one priority.