Industrial Placement 2025

Job Introduction
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 Business Assurance 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 Business Assurance 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. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

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.

**World changing work**

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. This is who we are.
- 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

**Your world of expertise**

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.

The Business Assurance Industrial Placement sits within Markets Central Office. Our team's purpose is to provide the support, guidance, and insights to enable the wider Markets Team to successfully deliver our shared purpose statement: Trade our propositions with consumers, coordinate engagement with stakeholders and champion the voice of the customer within the organisation.

**Key responsibilities**
- Support process reviews and documentation
- Assist in creation and management of business metrics
- Create and maintain dashboards using PowerBI to inform Senior Leadership Team and wider directorate
- Assist in development of Directorate Assurance training scheme

**Why join us**

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. 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.

Your package includes:

- Your salary will be £25,606
- Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
- Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

**Essential Criteria, skills and experience**:

- Competent in the use of Office 365 including PowerBI, Excel (intermediate user as a minimum), Word, Sharepoint and Teams (Expert by nature).
- Ability to explore requirements and information that aids decision makers in support of a desired outcome (Live and breathe it).
- Curiosity, attention to detail and drive to make a positive difference to how we operate (Force for good).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well with others (Better together).

**How to apply**

**How we can help**

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