Industrial Placement 2025 - Global Climate Dashboard

at  Met Office

JOB SUMMARY

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. 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.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• You will be studying for a degree in a STEM subject (We Keep Evolving).
• You will be able to describe your experience in computer coding, including data manipulation (We’re Experts by Nature).
• You will be conscientious and demonstrate a careful approach to your work (We Live and Breathe It).
• You will be able to show experience of working in a team towards a common goal, including communicating effectively with teammates (We’re Better Together).
• You will be able to discuss your interest in and show some understanding of climate change (We’re a Force for Good).
  Benefits
  Alongside your salary of £25,606, Met Office contributes £7,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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YOUR KEY DUTIES

• Develop the skills to help to ensure the robustness of the global climate dashboard system and to develop the content of the dashboard.
• Bringing together observations of key climate indicators with projections of future climate to show how climate change is evolving relative to expectations, and/or including other new metrics developed by partners in other UK institutions.
• 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.