Engineer Radar Hardware Team Industrial Placement 2026

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Engineer Radar Hardware Team Industrial Placement 2026

Job Reference metoffice/TP/423/977

Fixed Term Contract

Working Hours:

37

Location (City/Town):

Exeter

Closing Date:

07/12/2025

Profession:

Region / Division:

UK Region

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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 Engineer Radar Hardware Team Industrial Placement 2026 to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Engineer Radar Hardware Team 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.

For this Industrial Placement we would expect you to attend the office most of the time as the team work in the office almost every day.

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'rea force for 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 of decision - making
• We'rebetter together - understanding partnerships 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.

We operate a network of 15 weather radars across the UK. We're unique in having designed, built and installed these ourselves. The Radar Hardware Team are a small team of engineers who continue to develop the system. This might be enhancing data quality, adding new capability, improving reliability or reducing running costs. We also provide expert advice to the operations and field engineering teams.

You'll be joining us at an exciting time as the team are working on a major hardware improvement. We're working with the Research and Development (R&D) team to develop a new radar receiver and transition this into operational use. The team will be reworking a prototype into something suitable for installation and test on our R&D radar. The design will need to consider maintenance and repair as well as how we can efficiently build 20 of them.

This placement covers many different aspects of engineering - mechanical, electrical, electronics and manufacturing. You could be specifying and sourcing components, building and testing parts or drafting documentation. There will be many different tasks you could get involved in depending on your studies and area of interest. You'll also have opportunities to visit some of our radars around the UK.

• Gain experience in the real-world application of engineering skills and knowledge
• Assemble and test components for our existing radar
• Design and develop modifications to improve the radar performance.
• Draft test or assembly instructions for other engineers to follow.
• Help with problem solving as the team provide expert technical support.
• As a new member of the team offer a different perspective and new ideas

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:

• You're an expert by nature with a good underpinning engineering knowledge.
• You keep evolving with a passion to design and implement technical changes to make engineering improvements.
• You're an expert by nature with evidence of practical skills and ability to use common engineering hand tools and test equipment.
• You have good written and verbal communication skills to clearly and concisely record or convey technical information.
• You can analyse and solve technical problems.
• You work better together as part of a team and can take the initiative to plan and organise your work independently when required.

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 .

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.