Senior Linguistic Specialist, Production Support Services
Deluxe Entertainment
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Deluxe Media leads the advertising and entertainment industries with innovative supply chain solutions that help market, enrich, and enable media distribution to all platforms and all consumers throughout the world. Deluxe Media is a global company with presence in 8 countries. Our clients include the major Hollywood studios as well as a growing number of on-line retailers.
Primary Responsibilities
• Schedule the work of the department to ensure that deadlines are met and that workload distribution is balanced
• Train and mentor new language specialists and report to the Lead regarding their progress
• Identify team needs and report them to the Lead
• Oversee projects which require cross-department collaboration
• May oversee direct reports, depending on the needs of the department, monitoring their performance, conducting one-to-one meetings and conducting their performance evaluations
• Quality Control of subtitle files for theatrical, digital cinema, broadcast, and home entertainment for worldwide markets
• Quality control of dubbing scripts for broadcast for worldwide markets
• Creation of subtitle files and/or dubbing scripts in your native language, including transcription from audio, translation from template, translation from audio, adaptation from existing material
• A variety of production tasks that require applied language skills, such as spotting, timing, translation, proof, reworking repurposed material, corrections, foreign dialogue verification
• A variety of production tasks that require technical skills, using proprietary and commercial software, including script cleaning, rendering of subtitle images, video ingest
• Communicate with the coordinators and account managers responsible for overseeing the projects
• Ensure that deadlines are met
Other Responsibilities
• Testing and debugging of proprietary software
• Contribute actively to the training of new employees across teams and serve as a mentor as to training approaches used; provide input for evaluations
• Maintain and update guidelines for freelance linguists
• Maintain and update work instructions and checklists for departmental staff
• Create ad-hoc workflows for one-off special projects
• Create work instructions for new procedures
• Multi-tasking, problem-solving, decision-making, and keeping abreast of new procedures
• Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
• At least one year in the Language Specialist position
• Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Journalism, Communications or Translation (or equivalent)
• Proven experience in editorial, proofreading and/or translation
• Excellent command of English, and at least one other language
• Strong analytical skills
• Broad cultural knowledge and wide range of interest
• Team player, detail-oriented, ability to multi-task and work under pressure of a deadline
• Good command of Microsoft Windows systems and Microsoft Office Suite
• Background in audiovisual and film production an asset
Reporting
• Position reports to the Lead, Production Support Services