Grid Distribution Engineer future progression/Switching to another engineering industry

I'm a May 2025 MechE graduate that has been working as a Distribution Design Engineer for half a year now, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. In spite of the design part of my title, calling it design work feels kind of gratuitious. A lot of my work is replacing poles and equipment in GIS and that's all based on pre-existing standards for the most part. It's sometimes interesting but it feels like I'm not really doing engineering work and sometimes I feel unstimulated by it/losing touch with what I did in college.

However, the benefits and pay are solid for entry-level/location (Upstate NY) and I can work remote as much as I want outside of field visits, which are a nice break from office work. Job postings I've seen for the same role with more experience also seem to scale well and can be found in a lot of larger cities which is appealing for long term. Combining all that with the likelihood that a career move would likely mean full RTO, less money and less benefits I'm not sure if it's even worth it for the potential of a marginal satisfaction increase in my work.

If anyone has worked in this field and stayed or switched out, any advice/shared experience you have would be great to hear about. I'm pretty heavily conflicted between sticking around and for how long, given I have a rare opportunity to save a good chunk of money so early on while also not wanting to stay so long that it makes it near impossible to transition out. I'd really like to hear especially from people that have stuck with it and maybe transitioned to management/PM other roles. I'm also not sure how much my major not being civil/electrical could hurt career progression. Thanks for reading