Industrial Placement 2025 - Regional Climate Processes and Projections
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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 Regional Climate Processes and Projections Industrial Placement candidate 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 a Process-based evaluation of climate projections for Africa 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.
Job description
- Develop software to compute diagnostics for key processes driving African climate and use it to assess how well our models are able to represent these processes and what changes we might expect to see in the future. Results from this work have the potential to be included in the journal paper accompanying the release of the simulations.
- Contribute to Met Office efforts to develop software for more automated evaluation of regional climate models, enabling a more efficient, consistent and traceable approach.
Person specification
- Has a keen interest in current environmental issues and a desire to improve the situation through advancing science that ultimately guides governmental policy and decision-making [We're a force for good].
- Has a scientific background (e.g. physical science, computer science, engineering or mathematics) with good coding skills, preferably in Python [We're experts by nature].
- Has experience in writing and presenting scientific information and is willing to communicate with others to discuss ideas for progressing the project [We're better together].
- Can work independently and flexibly, able to devise new approaches to tackle problems that arise [We keep evolving].
Benefits
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
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If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.
Closing date: 08/01/2025 at 23:59. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date as past. Interviews will be completed by 25/02/2025.
For additional guidance on our recruitment process and how to apply please look at our approach to recruitment page on our careers site.
How we can help
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.
If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. 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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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