Cadent job reviews

Showing 23 reviews

• Best thing

  Charging the van,
  Break,
  Humour and complex skill learning

  Worst thing

  Working in cold wet conditions
  And having gas in or under / around buoldings

  8.0

  Employee at Cadent, January 2026

• Best thing

  No work life balance

  Worst thing

  No work life balance

  5.9

  Engineer at Cadent, October 2025

• Best thing

  Company car, pay, overtime

  Worst thing

  Call out and standby

  8.9

  Employee at Cadent, September 2025

• Best thing

  The pay is good for the work

  Worst thing

  The way it is ran, not being able to trust your colleagues or management.

  8.7

  Dispatcher at Cadent, June 2025

• Best thing

  Pay, variety of shifts, able to swap shifts with co worlers

  Worst thing

  Stress, late nights

  9.1

  Employee at Cadent, February 2025

• Best thing

  The union, rewarding

  Worst thing

  Head office, we're just a number and don't feel important

  7.8

  Gas engineer at Cadent, January 2025

• Best thing

  The task and the problem solving

  Worst thing

  The people i work with and the lack of care or support from supervisors

  2.4

  Team member at Cadent, July 2024

• Best thing

  Decent money, challenging work and all round nit a bad place to work.

  Worst thing

  Takes a lot of your time. Can be hard to strike a good work life balance in certain areas.

  9.1

  Team leader at Cadent, September 2023

• Best thing

  Pension. Money's not bad

  Worst thing

  Getting harder as I get older but still expected to do as much.

  Audits.

  Call out

  7.8

  Team leader at Cadent, January 2023

• Best thing

  high pay but very long unsociable hours

  Worst thing

  amount of responsibility put on team leader, some can't cope

  9.6

  Team leader at Cadent, May 2022

• Best thing

  The people I work with and the satisfaction of making sure the gas network is safe

  Worst thing

  Management

  2.5

  Gas engineer at Cadent, February 2022

• Best thing

  The job itself is easy

  Worst thing

  Being at cadents beck and call, wages don’t reflect job responsibility or unsociable hours, smart meter fitters working mon-fri 9-5 will pick up the same money without the pressure of constant auditing from outside body’s

  6.4

  Gas engineer at Cadent, November 2021

• Best thing

  Nothing. The entire company is destroying the morale of the work force

  Worst thing

  Uncertainty, no support, lack of communication

  2.1

  Employee at Cadent, May 2021

• Worst thing

  Unable to book holidays , long anti social hours , feel unvalued, zero development

  5.5

  FCO at Cadent, April 2021

• Best thing

  Ability to pick up extra shifts and calls

  Worst thing

  Digging, customer focus is too much

  7.8

  Team leader at Cadent, December 2020

• Best thing

  Working outside direct place all the time

  Worst thing

  Wet cold call out

  2.6

  Employee at Cadent, December 2020

• Best thing

  No day is the same

  Worst thing

  Shifts and call

  9.9

  Employee at Cadent, November 2020

• Best thing

  Freedom. Good managers

  Worst thing

  Out of touch top managment

  9.7

  Gas engineer at Cadent, November 2020

• Best thing

  Your your own boss, take breaks whenever

  Worst thing

  Getting called out

  9.7

  Lead engineer at Cadent, August 2020

• Best thing

  Different place every day

  Worst thing

  Work 24/7 rain or shine outside

  2.8

  Employee at Cadent, May 2020

• Best thing

  Working as a team

  Worst thing

  Some applications

  9.1

  Administrator at Cadent, March 2020

• Best thing

  Sick pay

  Worst thing

  Call out payment

  9.7

  Lead engineer at Cadent, March 2020

• Best thing

  My colleagues

  Worst thing

  Repetitive. Feel stuck.

  8.0

  Admin assistant at Cadent, October 2019