Associate Translation Specialist

4 days ago

Bayan Lepas, Malaysia Clarivate Full time

**Associate Translations Specialist** (Japanese patent content)**

**About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments**
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in STEM.
- Native level in Japanese (JLPT N1 or N2 certificate holder) as well as professional working proficiency in English.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, thorough, accurate, able to meet deadlines, and able to work quickly and steadily in a focused manner to achieve organizational goals.
- Demonstrate initiative, persistence, ability to problem solve, and enthusiasm for learning.
- Strong ability to multitask, prioritize, and work independently with mínimal supervision.

**It would be great if you also have**
- Academic or professional background in chemistry.
- Prior experience as a linguist using CAT tools.
- Prior experience in translation/content quality control.
- Background in intellectual property.
- Data analysis skills using Microsoft Excel, Power BI or other data analysis tools.
- Visible “can do” approach to work and positive attitude to change.
- A customer-driven approach and good business awareness.

**What will you be doing in this role?**
- Review, edit, and evaluate machine translation output and language resources to optimize translation quality.
- Translate or perform machine translation post editing and proofreading of patent contents, mainly from Japanese into English.
- Manage and maintain translation linguistic assets, including customer and industry-specific glossaries and translation memories, as well as create and update glossaries as needed in daily operations.
- 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.
- Participate in continuous improvement and corrective and preventive actions to reduce customer or internal complaints, improve efficiency, and mitigate risks.
- Participate in creating an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture and a team spirit.
- Undertake any other reasonable duties as requested by the team lead on a permanent or temporary basis.

**About the Team**

The translations teams in Penang, Malaysia mainly perform machine-assisted translations on patents from Japan/China/South Korea patent offices. The Japanese content translation team consists of 13 members reporting to the team lead, and we provide translations and contents for Clarivate’s key products such as Derwent Innovation, CompuMark & Cortellis. We support effective management and champion continuous improvement of our quality-driven operational workflow and practices, providing value-add insight and oversight of the names data like no others.

**Hours of Work**

This is a full-time permanent position with normal working hours (Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM). Out of working hour meetings may occur occasional to meet other teams from different time zones.

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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