Industrial Placement 2025 - Engineering & Observations

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026., 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.
Key duties
+ Perform signal processing to extract current intensity and lightning classification from newly developed magnetic loop antennas, with the aid of ML and AI
+ Begin integrating routine measurements from the magnetic loop antennas, which you’ll assist deploying into the field, into our larger long range lightning detection network LEELA to further enhance LEELA’s outputs
+ Reprocess previous data from LEELA using new and improved algorithms, you have helped develop and study if the lightning strike intensity of individual lightning strikes has changed in the last 5 years
+ Perform comparisons of lightning waveforms with lightning mapping date from the state of the are LOw Frequency ARray and from the newly operational Lightning Imager in, 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.
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Security
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1. Be an expert by nature in data analysis, signal processing and statistical methods
2. Undertaking a degree with strong physics, mathematics of meteorological background
3. Be able to apply Machine Learning methods to solve classification problems.
4. Demonstrate you can keep evolving by further developing your data analysis skills using programming languages such as Python or R
5. Able to demonstrate we're better together by showing experience of working on a problem as a team
6. Ability to setup instrumentation in either a laboratory or outside in the field

We’re looking for a Network 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 Observations Research and Development 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.
Together:
+ 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

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.
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