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 Weather Impacts 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 Weather Impacts 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.
As a member of the Weather Impacts team you will be working on a critical activity, developing methods to help us assess the value of warnings that the Met Office issues as part of the National Severe Weather Warning Service.
We are looking to develop a methodology that can be used to better demonstrate the value of warnings by quantifying 'avoided losses' (i.e. the difference between the impacts we might expect for a given weather event, and those that were observed). Counterfactual analysis is a method used to evaluate the impact of an event by comparing what happened with what would have happened in the absence of that event using a hypothetical scenario (the counterfactual). In the context of weather warnings, counterfactual analysis could be used to assess their value by estimating the impacts that were avoided due to the warnings.
Your key duties
Under this placement you will research methodologies and approaches to use counterfactual analysis to better demonstrate the value of warnings. Using case studies and previously collected data (e.g. traffic volume, flow, and incident data), you will explore and develop different approaches to quantify avoided losses for the transport network during high wind events in the UK. Your key activities during the placement will be:
Exploring the data sources needed and their requirements for effective counterfactual analysis
Develop and test methodologies that can be used to demonstrate the value of warnings through the quantification of avoided losses
Identify how methodologies complement existing warning evaluation and verification methods used in the Met Office.
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:
You're an expert by nature studying for a degree with a numeracy, science (physical sciences) and/or a statistical element such as Applied Maths or Data Science.
You have good programming skills (particularly Python or R) to solve scientific and/or technical tasks.
You work better together by collaborating well as a member of a team, using your own initiative when required.
You can accurately and concisely communicate the outcomes of your work through a variety of methods (oral and written).
How to apply
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 .
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.
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