Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

Translate or interpret written and oral text between Japanese and English for others. This is not a remote or hybrid position. Candidates must be willing to work onsite in a manufacturing environment. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Follow ethical codes that protect the confidentiality of information.
• Identify and resolve conflicts related to the meanings of words, concepts, practices, or behaviors.
• Translate messages simultaneously or consecutively into specified languages, orally by maintaining message content, context, and style as much as possible.
• Proofread, edit, and revise translated materials.
• Check translations of technical terms and terminology to ensure that they are accurate and remain consistent throughout translation revisions.
• Read written materials such as legal documents and rewrite material into specified languages.
• Refer to reference materials such as dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and computerized terminology banks as needed to ensure translation accuracy.
• Listen to speakers' statements in order to determine meanings and to prepare translations, using electronic listening systems as necessary.
• Check original texts or confer with authors to ensure that translations retain the content, meaning, and feeling of the original material.
• Compile information about the content and context of information to be translated, as well as details of the groups for whom translation or interpretation is being performed.
• Travel with or guide Japanese who speak another language.
• Coordinate relocation for Japanese Associates.
• Achieve company and department business plans for Health and Safety Goals.

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