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Job Description
Job Purpose:
- Translators convert written material from one or more 'source languages' into the 'target language', ensuring that the translated version conveys the meaning of the original as clearly as possible.
- The target language is normally the translator’s mother tongue.
- Responsibilities and duties
- Check translations of technical terms and terminology to ensure that they are accurate and remain consistent throughout translation revisions.
- Compile terminology and information to be used in translations, including technical terms such as those for legal or medical material.
- Proofread, edit, and revise translated materials.
- Reading original material and rewriting it in the target language, ensuring that the meaning of the source text is retained.
- Using the internet and email as research tools throughout the translation process.
- Prioritizing work to meet deadlines.
- Researching legal, technical and scientific phraseology to find the correct translation.
- Liaising with clients to discuss any unclear points.
- Using specialist dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to find the closest equivalents for terminology and words used.
Job Requirements
Technical Knowledge
- This position requires the individual to have an excellent background in technical translation and technical writing, especially in legal and engineering settings.
- Knowing how to find information and identifying essential information.
- Working with new material or information to grasp its implications.
- Inspecting and evaluating the quality of products.
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Good general knowledge
- Excellent spoken and written in required language
- Fluency in at least two foreign languages
- IT skills