Industrial Placement 2025 - Technician Engineer

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 a Technician Engineer 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 Technician Engineer 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 are studying for an undergraduate degree with a significant Engineering focus which MUST incorporate a placement year (i.e. sandwich course).
• You have good oral and written communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information.
• You live and breathe it with a flexible approach to meeting work requirements within a set deadline.
• You keep evolving - evidence of an interest in current and emerging engineering practice.
• Some experience of scientific instrument interfacing and wiring schedules.
• You are prepared to work away from home on occasions for up to 3 days, for example on UK field trips staying in overnight accommodation.
  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

• Prepare Technical Specifications to plan the work of upgrading infrastructure at an Automatic Weather Station (AWS).
• Use experience of scientific instrument interfacing and wiring schedules to produce technical drawings and circuit schematics to describe the building and installation of automatic weather station components.