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This is the Met Office.
This is who we are.
This is world-changing work.
Met Office Careers – Forecasting Your Future
Explore Met Office career opportunities & develop transferable employability skills. Take the first steps on your pathway to securing a dream role with this interactive experience.
We are the Met Office
What we do
We help prepare the world for tomorrow. From supercomputing to super people, our innovative approach to weather prediction and climate science is world-leading and world-changing. We’re a community of experts in our fields, in space, on the sea floor, in the atmosphere and always with our feet on the ground. What we do is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing.
Excellent people and culture are behind the exceptional, science, technology and operations at the Met Office. We have teams working across the world and around the clock in everything from, technology, engineering, weather, climate, communications, finance and beyond. Wherever we are and whatever our role, we all work together to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
What is meteorology?
For thousands of years, people have been fascinated by meteorology, the science of weather, climate and the Earth’s atmosphere. Since the Met Office’s foundation in 1854, we have pioneered the science of meteorology and its application. To this day, we continue to push the boundaries of science and technology, so that we can meet the demands of today and the future. We are a key part of the weather and climate community, uniting scientific leaders from every corner of the globe, delivering extraordinary impact and benefit to the world around us.
Today, our scientists study and predict what tomorrow's climate will look like. We push the boundaries of supercomputing technology and world-leading data prediction models to help people make better decisions every day and protect our planet for tomorrow.
Our purpose
We’re passionate about our purpose to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive in a rapidly changing world. And we know that we only make an impact when our data, products, services and advice, get into the hands of those who are going to use it and shape their lives around it.
Met Office Careers – Forecasting Your Future
Explore Met Office career opportunities & develop transferable employability skills. Take the first steps on your pathway to securing a dream role with this interactive experience.