Japanese Simultaneous Interpreter

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Goken America is an Engineering Services and Product Development company founded in 2004. At Goken America we strive to expand and deliver upon our company motto of “Creating Something Different”. We are continually striving to strengthen our organization, and are always seeking talented individuals who have a strong desire to work in an environment where they can make a difference.

Our “Vision” is to empower our associates to affect change wherever change is needed. Our “Mission” is that in building trust we foster greatness in our people, excellence in our clients and impact in our communities.

Goken America provides an excellent benefits package, one month of paid time off per year and a very competitive compensation plan. In addition, when applicable, we will also provide relocation assistance, temporary housing, visa support and other fringe benefits.

This role will support simultaneous interpretation from Japanese to English and English to Japanese for a large scale automotive OEM.

• Responsible for converting spoken statements or written material from Japanese to English and English to Japanese in a meeting and office environment setting.
• Speech interpretation may involve listening to, understanding and memorizing content, then reproducing statements, questions and speeches in Japanese and/or English.
• Written materials primarily include technical, administrative and presentation documents.
• The ability to provide simultaneous interpretation from Japanese to English (J to E) and English to Japanese (E to J) would be ideal, but at the very least, the ability to provide quality consecutive interpretation in both directions is mandatory. While simultaneous interpretation would be preferred, it is still required.
• Skilled in translating documents between Japanese and English.
• Perform translation as needed.

• BA or MA in Foreign Language, Linguistics, Translation, Interpreting or native in both English and Japanese.
• 2+ years of relevant Simultaneous interpretation experience required.
• If a candidate has native level of fluency in both English and Japanese, preferably he or she has BA or BS in degrees related to automotive, life science, medical, business, public relations, or IT field.
• Automotive technical simultaneous interpreter experience is preferred.
• Prior experience in simultaneous interpretation at Japanese OEMs is preferred.
• Language proficiency certification a plus, but not required.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
• Knowledge of desktop publishing (DP) or use machine translation software a plus.

Goken America (“Goken”) is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other applicable protected basis under federal, state, or local law. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity, and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

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