Western Power Distribution Reviews

Salary is well below average, and for new recruits often less than what is advertised as you're taken on as a 'designate'. There's many people alongside you on massive protected salaries driving flash company cars with little authorisation. Any time you find a way to make things work, management stop you from doing it. Training is cut to the bare minimum, and you're expected to run before you can walk by senior management. Don't expect any sort of work life balance if you want to get all your work done, and as soon as you finish one nightmare of a job you'll be given 3 more. Many people I worked with keep a pen and paper by their bedside, for when you wake up in the middle of the night every night and remember things you need to do - that's the sort of work life balance youll get. You're expected to be available for faults constantly, and meeting customer expectations at the same time, plus doing standby and other things in between. All in all, they expect too much for too little reward. The only benefit of working there, as listed on the WPD site, is free parking at the depot - wow.

Don't expect any worthwhile training, just a half day tick box exercises. There is no consistency with anything across the company - There are many people doing very little work on massive protected salaries with protected company cars which frustrates people. Management is none existent - If you are useless you get an easy ride, if you are any good then you get worked till you break. Work related is endemic within the company along with long term sick which they do nothing to manage (Even when it is repeatedly raised in staff surveys).