The Translation Division of RWS Group now has immediate vacancies at its Head Office in Buckinghamshire for high-calibre graduate linguists with English mother tongue and excellent German, preferably combined with another language, ideally Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish or Swedish.

As part of an international team of approximately fifty checkers, your work will involve word-by-word checking of translations prepared by in-house and external technical staff and sometimes adapting existing translations to conform to new versions of foreign documents.

Recruits who demonstrate their ability could be offered the opportunity to progress to trainee translator status, involving further technical study, and then to full translator status or alternatively to administrative functions within the company, many of these openings being filled internally.

Applicants must have degree-level qualifications in the relevant languages, excellent language skills, well-developed critical faculties and good powers of concentration.

Starting salary is £18,500 pa. Additional benefits include non-contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance and childcare vouchers.