Brazilian Portuguese Translation Specialist (EN - PT-BR), Translation Services Operations

TN Spain; Gelida; Presencial; EUR 30.000 - 50.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a Brazilian Portuguese Translation Specialist to join their dynamic team in Gelida. This role involves managing translation quality, providing feedback, and supporting machine translation improvements. Ideal candidates will possess exceptional linguistic skills, a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and a passion for ensuring high-quality translations. Join a fast-paced environment where your contributions will enhance communication across global teams and drive quality improvements in translation services. If you're ready to take on a challenging yet rewarding role, this opportunity is for you!

Formación

• Fluency in Brazilian Portuguese and English required.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant fields like Translation or Linguistics.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct quality checks on translations and provide feedback.
• Engage in quality improvement initiatives and maintain language assets.

Conocimientos

Linguistic Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Organizational Skills

Flexibility

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Translation

Bachelor's degree in Linguistics

Bachelor's degree in Communication

Herramientas

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Outlook

CAT tools

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Brazilian Portuguese Translation Specialist (EN - PT-BR), Translation Services Operations, Gelida

Client:

Amazon Spain Services, S.L.U.

Location:

Gelida, Spain

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

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3

Posted:

25.04.2025

Expiry Date:

09.06.2025

Job Description:

A Translation Specialist has exceptional linguistic and translation skills, organization and attention to detail, and excellent communication to manage relationships with colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders.

The Translation Specialist manages quality by assessing and scoring translations (both machine-generated and human), working with language assets like style guides, translation memories and term bases. They also provide comprehensive and structured feedback supported by sound knowledge of the MQM’s framework. This feedback is used to improve human linguists’ quality, train and enhance machine translation (MT) engines as well as quality-prediction models. The candidate will be comfortable working in an international, fast-paced environment, where change and ambiguity are present as we constantly grow, improve and innovate.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelance translators, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer’s and company’s quality standards.
2. Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed.
3. Review and improve MT and Large Language Models (LLM) engines’ quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback.
4. Monitor external vendor quality, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with other internal teams.
5. Contribute to the maintenance of existing language assets such as style guides, term bases and translation memories.
6. Provide occasional manual translations, such as during the launch of a new language combination.
7. Occasionally, post-edit machine-translated product pages in an efficient way to increase the product availability for the customer in their preferred language.
8. Depending on the department’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 or other initiatives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Brazilian Portuguese at a native level (or minimum C2).
• Localization skills from English (minimum C1) into Brazilian Portuguese.
• Fully fluent in both oral and written English.
• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: Translation, Linguistics, Communication or a related field.
• Analytical, writing and editorial skills.
• Attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Initiative, decisiveness and autonomy.
• Communication and collaboration skills.
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize and work towards deadlines.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and Outlook.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in proofreading or post-editing machine-translated content is an advantage.
• Ability to translate from a second source language is a plus.
• Experience with MT, LLMs and annotations.
• Strong working knowledge of CAT tools.
• Experience with mark-up languages, user interface strings and e-learning content.
• Project management experience.
• Ability to make sound decisions during tasks with incomplete or unclear information.
• Experience working as part of a global team and in different time zones.