• Level: Specialist
• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week (full time) on site in the Midland office
• Location: Midland, Michigan
• Important Note: This is an on-site position only.

1. Receive translation requests.
2. Evaluate the job requirements.
3. Identify and assign appropriate resources.
4. Create purchase orders for translators.
5. Provide quotes to customers.
6. Monitor job progress.
7. Perform a quality control review of completed work.
8. Send completed work back to client
9. Prepare invoices and send them to clients.

Qualifications: A bachelor’s degree or work experience in a technical field, such as chemistry, pharmacology, manufacturing, biology, biotechnology, computer science, intellectual property law, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, networking, electronics, etc. The Translation Project Manager must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to interact with customers and subcontracted translators. Requires a high degree of motivation and customer focus to ensure work is continually done to standard and exceeds the customer’s expectation. Qualified candidates should possess a high level of attention to detail and adapt quickly to situational changes. Foreign language skills and travel experience a plus. This person should know how to work quickly and accurately to meet a "real world" business requirement. They should understand how to manage a transactional business and allocate human resources to projects. They will participate as an integral member of a team, and work together with either a primary or backup translation project manager on each project. They will use business communication skills through direct customer contact to solicit and receive performance feedback. They should have subcontractor management skills through daily interaction with an international pool of translator resources, assigning translators and reviewers to various projects.

Work with Global Language Translations and Consulting as an Independent Contractor. We are looking for qualified native-language translators, often possessing both degrees and work experience in their respective fields.

Below are the areas of expertise needed most:

Note: Apply if you have a Ph.D. or at least 5 years of work experience in one or more of these areas.

• Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS): You must be familiar with GHS and the regulatory requirements for your country/region.
• Toxicology
• Chemistry (Ph. D. level): You must be able to translate chemical names correctly and accurately.
• Medical: You must be familiar with the user instructions on package inserts, home test procedures, and prostate cancer-related terminology.
• Biology: You must be familiar with Latin species names.
• Mechanical Engineering: You must be broadly familiar with a variety of tools, maintenance items, and support equipment.
• Information Technology: You must be familiar with software user manuals.

The following are languages we need most.

• Burmese
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• French (France)
• German
• Greenlandic
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Macedonian
• Montenegrin
• Samoan