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Translation Quality Trainee

Created on 27-02-2019
Location Berlin

Description

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Formlabs is looking for a Translation Quality Trainee to help broadcast our message and bring ground-breaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every professional designer, engineer, researcher, and artist in the world.


Localization at Formlabs is a small but growing team, where you will work with technical and marketing content across multiple other teams. Formlabs typically relies on translators to translate from English (source language) to German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese (target languages). As a Localization Team member, you will take care of assuring the communications with external translators and coordinate the in-house revisions to fine tune the quality of our message and finalize document formatting.


Join the Localization Team [****] Formlabs as a Translation Quality Trainee if you want to play a big part in how effectively our content explains our products and enable us to reach potential customers in a dynamic, competitive, global market space.


The job:


  • Track and coordinate all final revision (QC), proofreading, and typesetting tasks against deadlines;
  • Revise translated texts;
  • Communicate internally between requesters, content writers, reviewers, designers, and externally with translators and design layout specialists;
  • Perform pre-translation, including machine translation, terminology extraction, identifying potential errors in source text, etc;
  • Perform pre-typesetting, including document exporting, linked media compilation, and specific design requirements;
  • Compile feedback to and from translators and typesetters, to improve their quality and our process;
  • Process and publish completed translations to systems such as HTML- and markdown-based CMS and Adobe IDML;
  • Track and maintain versions of documents in internal and external storage libraries across multiple languages;
  • Use CAT tools such as MemoQ to ensure consistency of translation within documents and help efficiency;
  • Maintain Formlabs term base and translation memory;
  • Consult specialist dictionaries, thesauruses, and reference books to find the closest equivalents for terminology;
  • Research legal, technical, and scientific phraseology to find the correct translation;
  • Back-up localization project management.

You:


  • Have an excellent command (C1-C2 level) and fluent communication - at the grammar ninja level - in English, and one or more of German, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, or Japanese;
  • Bring proven experience handling - writing, reading, translating, etc - relevant publications, such as technical/scientific, dental and medical, commercial and promotional;
  • Have a passion for translation, linguistics, terminology, philology (or a language related field);
  • Are extremely organized and accustomed to juggling many tasks and maintaining information in multiple systems;
  • Simultaneously maintain a keen eye for detail and the big picture.

Bonus skills:


  • Experience with translation software, such as memoQ;
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite;
  • Knowledge of manufacturing tools, such as 3D Printing, CAD/CAM, and/or Additive Manufacturing

We look forward to your application! Please attach your CV, Cover Letter when applying. Our Team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of 3D printing.

Benefit

50 EUR commuter benefit with BVG for Berlin

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An inclusive work environment with diverse, international, inspiring colleagues

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Catering three times per week, free beverages and snacks

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Discount for Urban Sports Club

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Fun team events

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Shares in the company for full-time employees (we’re a Unicorn company)

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Unlimited 3D prints

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