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The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026.
We're looking for an exceptional Observations R&D Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.
As our Industrial Placement, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.
From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You'll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.
You will support the delivery or application of scientific research to enhance the Met Office's capability, impact or quality of its predictions, products or advice. More specifically, this post contributes to the Advancing Observations strategic theme through investigation and analysis of 3rd party and opportunistic sources of observations, which can potentially supplement the more traditional meteorological observations networks.
Work with observations scientists and engineers to understand new and existing forms of observation data and investigate quality control measures.
Develop knowledge and skills associated with observations data analysis.
The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.
Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2026, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you have completed your University studies.
Annual Leave starting at 27.Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands
You are able to draw on appropriate statistical and/or data science tools to analyse datasets and communicate the findings
Keep evolving - You can write code in python or a similar coding language, with a desire to enhance your skills and/or learn new languages as needed
Force for Good - You have an interest in the collection and use of real-world environmental data and appreciation of the need for quality assurance
How we can help
You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.