Translator – Spanish speaking

Are you an experienced translator looking to join a professional and supportive in-house team? Working as a translator in our English language office in Sheffield, you will be responsible for delivering translations of the highest quality on time and within budget. In this key role, you will have the opportunity to act as Lead Translator for one or several accounts.

Main Duties:
 

• Translating documents from Spanish into English
• Main subject areas would be financial and corporate texts, with some opportunity to work on other text types including legal, marketing and life sciences
• Reviewing the work of in-house and external translators
• Implementing client amends
• Linguistic checking of files in their final format
• Acting as lead translator to oversee the linguistic processes of one or several accounts
• Carrying out the review of documents authored in English
• Converting documents between different flavours of English
• Producing quality translations within given timeframes
• Providing linguistic support and feedback
• Mentoring more junior translators
• Working with clients, reviewers and project managers to define best practice
• Understanding and following SDL’s linguistic processes and procedures
• Managing terminology effectively
• Using the translation tools
• Managing your time effectively

Essential requirements:

• A degree in translation or a relevant combination of training and experience
• Proven experience in the translation industry
• Experience translating financial and corporate texts
• Excellent source text understanding
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Good knowledge of translation software such as Trados
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

• You must be a native English speaker

Please feel free to contact Nathan Melbourne for further details – nmelbourne@sdl.com