Chelton Reviews

3.3

73% would recommend to a friend

(36 total reviews)

69% positive business outlook

Chelton has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 36 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Chelton employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).

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36 reviews
1.0
20 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent bonus and good canteen

Cons

There seems to be very poor management and direction from the new Leadership team where items are promised to customers without any buy-in from internal teams. A very large number of people are overworked due to the company failing or refusing to recruit enough people to do the work. Quite often work from one person is thrown over to the next person without clear evidence of their capacity or ability to do this work. The only thing that seems to be important to the company is maintaining its EBITDA position.

1.0
23 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good food in Canteen and really friendly canteen staff Mostly friendly professional people throughout the business Decent enough pay benchmarked to other organisations Flexible working policy is ok

Cons

IT Department is flawed in processes and fundamentally setup incorrectly resulting in a high turnover of staff leading to job instability. HR are lip service to the problems which they know exist at chelton. Just there as entertainment. VP’s greasing there own pockets and not caring about wider business issues. Legacy slow and non working business systems. Too many contractors as full time staff leave - real high turnover of staff among wider business not confined to just IT. High stress/ridiculous caseload within IT. Really unorganised and no co-ordination throughout whole business due to various migrations over the years from ownerships aquisitions from Cobham to new owners Transdigm. High paid IT Managers doing basic tasks putting excessive pressure on lower IT staff and telling untruths to get themselves out of situations. Im sure there maybe a response to this from Chelton Marketing saying they believe its an inaccurate mis-representation of Chelton but this is 100% truth I would not recommend working here to anybody not just confined to IT but any role.

1.0
11 Mar 2022

Honest review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nothing unless you are a yes person

Cons

Bully mentally, VP's trying to out run the other, CEO just interested with his multi millio pension pot in the next 18 mths, Looking for a easy life. Breading the wrong culture throughout the organisation HR are puppets the company has lost its integrity. No direction from the leadership team

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Chelton Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with Chelton. We feel your comment isn’t a true representation of Chelton and would encourage you to reach out to our HR team at info@chelton.com to discuss this further.
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