In-person work experience opportunities at the Met Office

In-person work experience placements for 14 - 18 year olds are available to young people who have completed the Met Office’s online work experience programme, Forecasting Your Future.

Listed at the bottom of this page are the work experience placements currently available across the Met Office. If you are interested in applying for work experience, you may like to bookmark this page and check in regularly, as new opportunities may become available at any time.

Am I eligible to apply?

To apply for in-person work experience, you must:

  • Have completed Forecasting Your Future, the Met Office virtual work experience programme.
  • Be in one of the following academic year groups at the time of the placement:
    • England and Wales - Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 or Year 13 (up to 31 August)
    • Northern Ireland - Year 11, Year 12, Year 13 or Year 14 (up to 31 August)
    • Scotland - S3, S4, S5 or S6 (up to 31 August)
  • Be studying in the UK (either in formal education or being home-schooled)

Applying for in-person work experience.

Each of the work experience opportunities listed below will link through to further details and an application form. The application procedure is similar to that which you would follow if you were applying for a job at the Met Office, so it is good practice for the future too!

As part of your application, you will need to submit all the work-based assignments you completed during the online programme. So, please make sure you have downloaded these ready to send.

Guidelines to help you with your application can be found here (PDF, 152.9 KB)

Available opportunities.

The in-person work experience opportunities listed below are now live. Please follow the relevant links to apply.

Further in-person placement opportunities will be added over the coming weeks and months. So, you may like to bookmark this page and regularly check for updates. We wish you luck with your applications!

Field Service Engineering team

Location: Watnall, Nottingham

Dates: 10 - 12 June (3 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: Field Service Engineering involves the maintenance, repair and calibration support of the vast majority of operational instrumentation, equipment and systems within the Met Office; from the tipping bucket rain-gauge to the complex system of equipment at Weather Radar sites. This placement may also involve insight into Lidar maintenance and an Autosonde weather balloon launch.

Apply here

Communications & Engagement – Content team

Location: Exeter

Dates: 24 - 26 June (3 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: Our busy Content Team, helps to communicate weather and climate science in engaging, innovative ways. You’ll learn how the team creates content to suit a wide range of channels including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X. You will work alongside designers, video editors and presenters to experience what it’s like creating and publishing content. With an interest in design, video and social media, you’ll be encouraged to take an active role in brainstorming sessions and feeding back on the content the team create.

Apply here

Education Outreach team

Location: Exeter

Dates: Two placements are available 1-2 July (2 days) and 3-4 July (2 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: The Education Outreach team works with teams across the Met Office to provide outreach opportunities for young people aged 3-18.  We aim to increase knowledge and understanding of weather and climate and help young people discover the wide variety of careers within the Met Office, broader STEM sector and Civil Service.

Apply here

Hazards and Resilience team

Location: Exeter

Dates: 8-9 July (2 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: The Hazards and Resilience team are responsible for providing weather information to the emergency services, industry and government, to support preparedness, risk reduction and crisis response.  The team enables the UK Resilience Community to make better informed decisions to protect lives and property.  To do this they manage and run the National Severe Weather Warnings Service (NSWWS), Space Weather (MOSWOC), Flood Warnings (FGS & SWFHIM) and the Hazard Manager Help Centre.  This placement focuses on the technologies underpinning these services.

Apply here

Climate Science team

Location: Exeter

Dates: 9 - 11 July (3 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: This placement will be centred around completion of a mini project related to changes in West African monsoon rainfall as the ocean warms, supported by the Climate Science team. The project will involve some coding – depending on your level of ability, this could be as simple as making small edits to existing code, or could be designed to be more complex. 

Apply here

Climate Knowledge Integration team

Location: Exeter

Dates: 16 - 17 July (2 days)

Application Deadline: Tuesday 7 May 2024 (10pm)

Brief description of work area: The Climate Knowledge Integration team sits within the ‘Climate Science’ area of the Met Office. Our work focuses on communicating the latest climate science from the Met Office in an accessible and useful way, mostly to decision-makers in UK government departments. Our aim is to help ensure decisions and policy related to climate change are informed by robust scientific evidence.

Apply here