Associate Translations Specialist

7 days ago

Penang, Malaysia Clarivate Full time

About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N1 or N2 certificate.
- Excellent read & written Japanese, and excellent read, spoken & written English.
- An engineering, chemistry or Japanese language related degree required, masters or advanced degree preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good data analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, Power BI or other data analysis tools.
- Effective time management and organizational skills with the ability to set priorities and achieve deadlines and targets.
- A team player with the ability to work under own initiative, driving concept to conclusion.

It would be great if you also had...
- Previous experience as a linguist.
- Previous experience in handling Japanese-English content translation.
- Previous experience in translation/content quality control.
- A customer-driven approach and good commercial awareness.
- Problem identification and solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Visible “can do” approach to work and positive attitude to change.

What will you be doing in this role?
- Analyze quality checks from daily publications of Japanese patents to drive daily selection and allocation of translated patent records for editorial enhancement.
- Participate in quality assurance checks of daily Japanese patent translation and perform dictionary registrations and adjustment of original writing to improve the translation quality within the expected timeline.
- Review editorial suggestions applied to local translation dictionaries, approve valid suggestions, and oversee updates to master dictionaries.
- Review and approve suggestions and manage updates to the translation memory.
- Manage customer cases assigned by the customer service desk and operational requests for translation enhancement, allocate retranslation/enhancement requests and manage any associated updates to the master dictionaries and translation memory.
- Provide data analysis and reporting from periodic quality benchmarking reviews.
- Provide analysis and feedback of quality assurance data to external vendors to drive continuous content improvement.
- Provide analysis and suggestions for process and content improvements as part of the daily role or through participation in project teams.
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by the team lead on a permanent or temporary basis.

About the Team

Patent content teams in Clarivate Penang COE mainly perform machine-assisted translation of patents sourced from Japan/China/Korea patent offices from the local languages to English language. The Japanese Content Team provides machine translation post editing & translation content curation of Japanese patents in engineering & chemistry technology areas. The team also does quality assessment on machine translation output, and create data set to improve quality of the translation engine. Furthermore, the team supports translation requests from other business units as well as be the gatekeeper of translation quality. You will have chances to work with various internal stakeholders of different business units and locations in this role.

Hours of Work

This is a permanent role. You will be working full-time in APAC time zone, 40 hours a week from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM.

At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.

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