Trainee Scientific Consultant

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 291341**Salary**:

- £24,146 - £26,641**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- ExeterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We’re looking for an exceptional Trainee Scientific Consultant - Industry Consultancy to help us make a difference to our planet through contributing to a portfolio of scientific consultancy projects enabling industry customers to use science to understand the impact of weather and climate on their operations, enabling them to make better decisions.

We are the Met Office, the National Meteorological Service for the UK. We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

The Industry Science and Consultancy area is made up of a mix of Scientists, Scientific Consultants and Scientific Software Engineers with a range of backgrounds and different academic/career experiences from meteorology to maths and statistics, climate science to data science, physics to environmental science - we do not all come in with a meteorology background, but we do all share a passion for taking weather and climate information and making it useful, usable and used.

As both individuals and teams we deliver high quality, impactful outputs, whilst ensuring we work together in a positive, collaborative and supportive way: understanding we all have lives and responsibilities beyond our jobs, respecting each other, benefiting from our differences and building and developing both our own and others’ skills to progress as a team and in our own careers.

The focus of the Industry Science and Consultancy area is to innovatively employ our world-leading weather and climate science to ensure our customers are able to make the best possible use of meteorological information in their decision-making. At the heart of this is our Industry Consultancy team, working with our customers to understand the challenges that they are facing and to develop and deliver bespoke analysis to solve these critical industry problems.

Together:

- ** We’re a force for good** - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- ** We’re experts by nature** - always learning and developing to do things better
- ** We live and breathe it** - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- ** We’re better together** - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- ** We keep evolving** - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

**Job description**:
If successful, you will gain an understanding of a range of industries, particularly energy and water sectors, complementing this with your relationship management skills and relevant scientific and technical background to develop, win and deliver projects. You will work as part of a team of scientists and scientific consultants working closely with our business colleagues and collaboratively with the broader organisation to lean on specialist skills and ensure the latest pioneering science is being employed and pulled through to the benefit of our customers.

To give you a feel for the work, some recent examples of the types of projects undertaken by members across the team include:

- Evaluating and trialling the use of longer-range weather forecasting to aid industry planning and decision-making;
- Designing, developing and delivering training to industry on the use of climate data for reporting and decision-making;
- Climate change assessment to help tourism customers understand the potential impacts of climate change on their assets in the future;
- Generating event sets of adverse meteorological conditions in current and future climates to aid the resilience of a highly renewable electricity system of the future, aiding the national path towards Net Zero;
- Predicting future consumer water demand based on weather and wider impacts, including having undertaken analysis on the impact of lockdowns.

Your job will encompass a range of activities, varying between projects. As a Trainee Scientific Consultant these will include building relationships with customers, to aid the identification of their needs, drivers and decision-making processes, and helping recognise how weather and climate information can help with this.

You could be involved at all stages of projects, including understanding the opportunity; supporting the writing of bids and proposals; undertaking scientific analysis by researching and coding new analytical methods to utilise weather and climate data together with business data; and providing information through a variety of methods such as reports, presentations and the delivery of training.

Throughout, you will work effectively as part of a team with colleagues and customers to ensure projects are delivered and fully