- Translate and review texts for all DCC service lines
- Perform translation quality control to ensure concordance, accuracy, clarity, etc.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive terminology management database
- Support development and implementation of innovative translation processes
- Stay up to date with DCC-related terminology
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal clients, external suppliers and networks
- Translation software and terminology management databases
- Current translation trends and best practices
- Project- and client-management best practices
- Experience: At least four years in editing, translation and use of translation software, preferably in an agency setting
- Public service pension
- 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short-term disability insurance
- $400 Wellness Allowance (e.g., gym membership)
- $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
- $750 Health Care Spending Account (for some medical expenses that aren't covered under provincial plans or our standard insurance plan)
- Telus Virtual Health Care
- Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for a maximum of 17 weeks
- Hybrid workplace options including $400 allowance every two years to support work-from-home options
- Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
- Deluxe travel benefit plans
- Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans
Translator-reviser - Ottawa, Canada - Defence Construction Canada
Description
**Flexible and hybrid work schedule**
Translator-Reviser, Translation Services
Looking for an employer who values your passion for language and a job well done? Join Defence Construction Canada's new translation unit. We're a growing team of linguistic professionals that thrives on producing high-quality work.
Let's talk about you
Organized. Reliable. Comfortable juggling competing demands. That's you – committed to linguistic excellence and putting your best work forward. You're excited about a job that lets you pay meticulous attention to detail, especially in the quest to find the right word or the perfect phrase to communicate an idea. You're intrigued by complex linguistic problems and the challenges of solving them quickly. No detail is too small, no deadline too tight. Research is one of your favourite pastimes. You have the people and project-management skills it takes to be a service-oriented professional. You're a team player who's just as comfortable working alone. When it's time to pitch in, everyone can count on you.
As the successful candidate, you may fulfill your role in hybrid mode (2-3 days a week in the office) if you live in the National Capital Region. You may also work remotely in Canada (within easy commuting distance of a major centre or travel hub), in which case we'll bring you to DCC headquarters in Ottawa twice a year for in-person team meetings.
You're a good fit if you have these qualifications
You have a professional working knowledge of:
Education: University degree in translation or related field
Meet your team
As the successful applicant, you'll join our small but growing translation unit within DCC Communications. In fact, we'll count on you to help build the unit– and our reputation. Day to day, you'll work as part of a supportive team of expert linguists that offers the full range of translation skills and expertise. We collaborate constantly and will look to you for your expert advice and insight as we meet the needs of internal client groups located wherever there are military bases across Canada
Check out the benefits
Working with DCC offers excellent opportunities for growth and advancement – and entitles you to one of the job market's best benefits packages. In your role as Translator-Reviser, your package is valued at 25% to 30% of your salary.
Your package will include:
Join our diverse and inclusive workplace
At DCC, we want to ensure that everyone has a voice and can be their authentic selves in our workplace. We encourage applications from all, including women, people of colour, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ communities. We also welcome applications from those who are not Canadian citizens, yet who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least five years of verifiable background information in Canada.
DCC is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all requests for accommodation based on a medical contraindication, religion or another prohibited ground for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Should you require accommodation, please email .
Defence Construction Canada
DCC is a Crown corporation of the federal government. Since 1951, we have provided contracting, infrastructure and environmental services to help build and maintain facilities for Canada's armed forces. Our projects range from control towers to dockyards, community centres to accommodation facilities, and roads to sewer and water systems. Our Client-Partners are the Department of National Defence and the Communications Security Establishment.