Translation Specialist

3 days ago

Toronto, Canada Amazon.com.ca, Inc. Full time

French at a native level.
- Fully-functional oral and written communication skills in English.
- A great deal of personal initiative, decisiveness and independence.
- Strong and structured communication & exceptional collaboration skills.
- Flexibility, proven ability to prioritize and work towards deadlines.
- Strong working knowledge of CAT tools, MS Word and MS Excel, Outlook.
- Français (niveau de langue maternelle).
- Compétences complètes en communication orale et écrite en anglais.
- Beaucoup d'initiative personnelle, d'esprit de décision et d'indépendance.
- Communication solide et structurée et compétences exceptionnelles en collaboration.
- Flexibilité, capacité avérée à établir des priorités et à travailler dans le respect des délais.
- Solide connaissance pratique des outils de TAO, MS Word, MS Excel, et Outlook.

Job summary

Key job responsibilities
- Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelancer translators, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer’s and company’s quality standards.
- Control and improve machine-translation engines’ quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback.
- Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to your peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed.
- Monitor external vendor quality progress, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with other internal teams.
- Depending on the group’s needs and your own skills and inclinations, support our leadership, business and tech teams by taking an active part in training, project / program management, etc.
- Effectuer des contrôles de qualité en relisant ou en révisant le travail linguistique des traducteurs pigistes, des pairs et d'autres fournisseurs externes afin de garantir le respect des normes de qualité du client et de l'entreprise.
- Contrôler et améliorer la qualité des moteurs de traduction automatique en évaluant les résultats et en fournissant des commentaires linguistiques.
- Fournir des commentaires et un accompagnement linguistique à vos pairs, aux traducteurs pigistes et aux autres fournisseurs externes, et participer à des initiatives d'amélioration de la qualité si nécessaire.
- Surveiller les progrès de la qualité des fournisseurs externes, étudier les variations de qualité, et élaborer et mettre en œuvre des mesures visant à améliorer la qualité en collaboration avec d'autres équipes internes.
- Soutenir nos équipes de direction, commerciales et techniques en prenant une part active à la formation, à la gestion de projets et de programmes, et autre, en fonction des besoins du groupe et de vos propres compétences et inclinations.
- Any additional language is a plus
- Ability to make logical decisions while performing tasks even when provided information is ambiguous
- Previous experience in proofreading or post-editing of machine-translated content is a great advantage
- Strong analytical, writing and editorial skills
- Working knowledge of SQL and expert level of Excel is a strong advantage
- Working knowledge of programming languages (preferably python)

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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