Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement 2027

Met Office; Exeter; Híbrido; GBP 27 000 - 32 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hybrid working

Resumo da oferta

The Met Office invites applications for a Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement starting July 2027. This 12-month Year in Industry placement offers hands-on work on observational metadata and climate data, with opportunities to interact with a wide cohort and contribute to reports and communications.

Based in the UK with a flexible, partly remote pattern—at least one day in the office per week—this full-time role provides a platform to develop data analysis skills within a mission-driven

Qualificações

• Must be able to analyse data from multiple sources and communicate findings clearly.
• Experience with observational metadata and data handling is desirable.
• Ability to work in a team and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Responsabilidades

• Review and assess diverse evidence relating to metadata from sites and instruments.
• Be part of an operational team providing live observational data to Met Office products.
• Support relationships with customers, partners and stakeholders to uphold Met Office reputation.

Conhecimentos

Data analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Ferramentas

SQL

Python

Excel

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2027.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2027, 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 andunderstand what career opportunities are on offer at the Met Office after you graduate.

We’re looking for a Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Climate Metadata Analyst 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. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum.

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 toagreea 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’reaforcefor good- focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’reexperts by nature- always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it- putting our purpose at the heart ofdecision-making
• We’rebettertogether-understandingpartnerships and inclusivity make usgreater
• 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.

Observations are fundamental to almost all the services that the Met Office provides – as direct data and products; for initialising Numerical Weather Prediction and other models; for verification of forecasts; as the basis for many weather / climate related consultancy services and for monitoring the UK as well as the global climate. Key to ensuring the quality and understanding the characteristics of this data, is assessing the local conditions under which data is taken. This is not only an important consideration in collecting today's data but has a heightened importance in assessing our long term time series of observations. This information is collectively described as Observational metadata and takes a variety of forms including photographs, maps, communications, inspection reports and digitised database fields. Some early forms of metadata exist in the Met Office Archives dating back to 1900 and these records represent rich evidence to the local conditions and history of the sites, instruments and UK network.

This opportunity will also include being part of an operational team providing live Observational data to the Met Office products and services, with opportunities to experience and contribute to a wider range of activities In addition to the scientific impact on data, these sources of metadata also provide important accounts which should aid celebration of these historic partnerships, becoming part of our internal and external communications.

Your key duties

• Focusing on conducting the review and assessment of a wide variety of evidence. This may require some detective work and consideration of impacts and uncertainties from findings in comparison to site data.
• Being part of an operational team providing live Observational data to the Met Office products and services, with opportunities to experience and contribute to a wider range of activities
• Supporting the development of relationships with customers, partners, stakeholders and suppliers in order to maintain the Met Office's reputation. The sources of metadata can provide important accounts which should aid celebration of our historic partnerships, becoming part of our internal and external communications and press.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing.The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

Your package includes:

• Your salary will be £27,170
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2028, there may be an opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies. However, this is not guaranteed and would be subject to programme availability and a successful application.

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

• Lead Criteria: Has the ability to systematically analyse data from a variety of sources in addition to proactively investigating leads (Experts by Nature)
• Can communicate technical information clearly and concisely to a range of customers who have varying levels of technical understanding and express outcomes with consideration of uncertainties (Better Together:)
• You can communicate information of interest in a factual but engaging manner (Force for Good).
• You can demonstrate an ability to work unsupervised at times delivering tasks to the deadlines provided (Live and Breathe it).
• You can develop better ways of working, seeing through these changes to ensure a better outcome (Keep Evolving).

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How We Can Help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us [e-mail].

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 DisabilityConfidentScheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

Weunderstand 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 without caveats and/or restrictions for this role, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application.

Closing date:23:59 8th November 2026. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date has passed.

Interviews will be completed by 16th December 2026.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact us at: [e-mail] If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: [e-mail].