Quality Reviewer - London, United Kingdom - Questel
Description
Position Overview**:
Reporting to the Director, Linguistics Operations & Quality Review and as an integral part of Questel's Language Solutions Team, this role is responsible to review localization, life science and legal documents that have been translated from English into other languages, or foreign language documents into other foreign languages, for all clients.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities:
- Perform reviews and edits as necessary
- Work with translators to identify and correct errors in English language files
- Balance multiple review projects and prioritize accordingly based on deadlines and workload
- Communicate larger quality concerns to project managers so they can be addressed appropriately
- Ensure all nonlinguistic components in the translation match those in the source
- Assist project managers in ensuring timely delivery for all projects
- Perform quality control jobs consisting of QC checks, which include light formatting and completion
- Perform monolingual reviews
- Assess the quality of target text to ensure proper grammar and syntax for optimum readability
- Ensure formatting and completion requirements are followed in accordance with client instructions
- Work on special projects and other duties as assigned by management
Qualifications & Skills**:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function._
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
Or any combination of education, experience and training which provides the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Previous proofreading or copyediting experience preferred
- Strong computer and DTP skills
- Strong command of the English language
- Detailoriented, analytical, thorough, and able to work quickly and efficiently
- Strong ability to work independently, prioritize, and handle multiple tasks and deadlines
- Able to work independently with mínimal supervision and as part of a team
- Fluent in English
- Fluency in a second language, other than English, is preferred but not required
Supervision Received:
Supervision is provided by the Director, Linguistics Operations & Quality Review
Supervision Exercised**:
No direct reports
Physical/Sensory/Mental Demands:
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._
- Consistently operating a computer and other office productivity machinery
- Remembering names and details
- Maintains confidentiality of all information that is or will be confidential and proprietary to Questel or Questel's clients
Additional Requirements:
Verification of identity and criminal records check
Disclaimer
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice._
Questel
Equal Employment Opportunity - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.
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