Climate Metadata Analyst Industrial Placement

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 and understand 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 to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

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

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 initializing 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.

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