Job Description

Would you like to spend your workdays cooperating with colleagues across the world? At RWS, you are part of a young, dynamic in-house team with contacts from Tokyo to Silicon Valley. Together with your team members and with help from your local line manager and our international project teams, you manage all translations into Dutch for well-known multinationals. You manage your own projects, which includes deciding which projects to outsource to our experienced vendors.
We are recruiting linguists for all our subject matter fields, notably life sciences, marketing/transcreation, automotive/engineering, travel, and retail. We are interested in all experience levels.

Key Responsibilities
• Translating and post-editing texts into Dutch
• Editing and proofing translations provided by in-house colleagues as well as qualified external vendors
• Managing localization projects, which includes providing linguistic support to project managers and other colleagues
• Delivering quality according to our standard procedures and contributing to continuous development of the same

 Qualifications
You have native-level proficiency in Dutch. You have either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in translation or a relevant second language (English, German, or French), or several years of experience as an author/translator in one of our subject matter fields. You will translate content from English; ability to work from German and/or French would be an additional asset. You can work efficiently and are a swift multitasker. You communicate effortlessly in both Dutch and English. You are computer proficient and quick on the uptake with new tools and applications. You have a good eye for detail, you are well organized and you can cope well with daily stress.

 

 Our Offer
• A full-time position (32-40 hours per week) at our Hengelo site, located adjacent to the Hengelo train station

• Flexible working hours and the option to partially work from home

• Initial temporary contract with realistic prospects toward a permanent contract

• Compensation in line with market standards, with solid growth opportunities

• Daily Work-from-home compensation, full travel (public transportation) compensation

• Participation in retirement plan

• Informal and fun work environment including a Nintendo Switch in the cafeteria

 

Company Profile
RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations. Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology. Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

RWS is committed to a work environment with equal opportunities for all employees, in which discrimination and intimidation are not tolerated.

All employment decisions at RWS are based on company needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without consideration of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.
 

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

 

RWS Language Services division: recognised as the world’s largest Language Service Provider – helps customers to create, translate, and deliver content across 250+ languages. Our global team of linguists, project managers, subject matter experts and localization professionals work closely with customers to ensure their communications and multilingual content is compelling, accurate and consistent.

At RWS in Hengelo, our team consists of around 60 people, including more than 40 language specialists in our Language Office who work closely with their colleagues around the world. Our main specializations are: IT, life sciences, travel, retail, manufacturing, automotive and finance.

The application process includes a test translation and an on-site interview.