PPL reviews

The company itself does not seem to be in the best place. They are cutting back everywhere they can. PPL lineman are still being used on the distribution side, but everything is contracted out for transmission. I wouldn't be surprised if PPL lineman are completely phased out in the near future and it's all contractors. Substation and relay operators/techs are still PPL, but it's been over 5 years since anyone new was hired. I wouldn't be surprised if the substation and relay work gets completely contracted out in the near future since many are approaching retirement. The control centers have a high turnover rate. Distribution Control Center is pretty much kids straight out of college and most quickly realize they don't want to do rotating shift work. Transmission Control Center is a mix of previous operators from other companies and navy nukes. Transmission side reorganized recently and got rid of senior operators and created supervisors instead, hiring engineering who have no operations experience. Because of that, they don't really know what going on and are so disconnected from what is happening on the desk that they really can't contribution to real time operations. The planning department in transmission is on its last leg. Right now TSO's write all the work on the desk and the single planner does the 2 week study. As of right now, about half of the operators on transmission side are trying to leave. PPL will not offer more money to try and keep employees. As employees leave, the vacancies don't get filled and work continues to trickle onto the operators on the desk. PPL put all of it's capital in the electric system and almost none in it's employees.

Some of the most incompetent group of people I ever had to work and deal with. Upper management are void of any leadership skills, and they don't support their employees regarding career progression or making their lives easier. They will not train you, treat you like a number and they have a "if you don't like it, leave" mentality. It's a great place to start when beginning your career, but not a good place to stay if you want to grow your career. Don't think you'll get any good projects and grow here, they will hire contractors to do the job for them. You will be stuck doing excel sheet work and on top of that, they will cut your bonus to save money. They care a whole lot about money for a company that is heavily regulated. Doesn't even make sense. The turnover is high, no one ever stays here. At least if you're intelligent enough to realize this place absolutely sucks. It's overgrown with incompetent people, management lacks diversity, and management will throw you and your career under the bus to get a promotion. They will sell you out. Horrible place, never going back.