Climate Risk Industrial Placement 2026

Job Introduction

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2026.  

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2026, 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 Risk Industrial Placement 2026 to help us make a difference to our planet. 

As our Climate Risk Industrial Placement 2026, 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. 

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. 

The Climate Impacts Modelling team is in the Earth System Mitigation Science part of the Met Office Hadley Centre. Our central role is to describe the consequences of climate change for societies and the ecosystems on which societies depend. This often involves understanding what global, regional and national scale impacts could be avoided by mitigating climate change, but also could involve understanding how large scale climate adaptation measures could reduce climate risks. To do this, we use various process-based and statistical impacts models that describe the earth system hazards, such as heat waves, fire, flooding, drought and crop failures. This placement provides an exciting opportunity to contribute towards taking these assessments further by incorporating elements of exposure and vulnerability in order to form a more complete quantification of climate risks. It will require understanding the socio-economic scenarios that under-pin climate model projections (called Shared Socio-economic Pathways, or SSPs), and identifying appropriate datasets to characterise different aspects of human vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. Where appropriate, this could also involve presenting results to customers in UK government.

Your key duties 

When formulating your response to the essential criteria below, please consider the duties of this role. The main duties of the job are:

• Critically evaluate datasets, and develop approaches to characterise climate risks that consider vulnerability and exposure to the impacts of climate change.
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality scientific outputs  that  advance capability in climate impacts science.
• Build on existing datasets of climate hazards and carry out collaborative research directly aligned with Met Office science priorities.
• Contribute to the communication of Met Office science internally and externally.

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 and 2024 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 2027, 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:  

1. A background in a relevant scientific field in the process of study to degree level 
2. Knowledge of climate science, or climate impacts science
3. Demonstrated interest and emerging skills in climate impacts science or climate change risk analysis 
4. Experience of scientific programming, using Python, R or MATLAB
5. Strong organisational skills, with demonstrated ability to deliver independently and as part of a team, meet tight deadlines and organise own work
6. Strong oral and written communication skills, presenting own work and writing up results

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. Please also look at the Early Careers Programmes Application Guidance at the bottom of this advert. 

Closing date: 23:59 7th December 2025. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date has past.   

Interviews will be completed by February 2026. 

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 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, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.