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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 Global Climate Dashboard 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 Global Climate Dashboard 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 be developing the Met Office Global Climate Dashboard, which presents accessible, updating information on key global climate indicators that is open and free to use for all. It has been accessed in over 165 countries worldwide over the last year alone.
Underpinning the dashboard is a python-based system that harvests pre-calculated indicators from international data providers, displaying them on the pages. You will develop the skills to help to ensure the robustness of the system and develop the content of the dashboard, collaborating with our team of friendly and supportive scientific software engineers and scientists.
Develop the skills to help to ensure the robustness of the global climate dashboard system and to develop the content of the dashboard.
There may be opportunities to also contribute to related scientific software engineering work on climate monitoring, as the global climate dashboard is just one aspect of our work.
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 will be able to describe your experience in computer coding, including data manipulation (We're Experts by Nature).
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.