Open Position: Translator/Interpreter

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES: (Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge, or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to accurately reflect the principal job elements.)
E = Essential Functions

Duties:

• Read, translate, and produce a variety of documents, materials, information bulletins, handbooks, correspondence and news releases; prepare drafts and finished, proofed translations; produce verbatim translations. E
  
• Produce idiomatic translations considering the type of material and readers’ viewpoints; determine most accurate shades of meaning and make corrections as needed; review and edit translations for accuracy, context, readability and style; research reference materials. E
  
• Contact libraries, universities, and specialists to obtain the services of translators in designated language other than Russian; contact other translators to clarify terms to be translated and to discuss necessary changes. E
  
• Provide simultaneous interpretations using the Russian language for Frontier Environmental Solutions functions; attend meetings as necessary; translate and interpret minutes of meetings; abstract or summarize materials. E
  
• Use headphones and microphones during oral translations of meeting and presentations as necessary; use word processing equipment, microcomputers and standard office equipment. E
  
• Review native language performance and provide written assessment of the native language proficiency of potential employees as assigned. E
  
• Provide accounting services to set pricing and provide invoicing for Russian Language translation and interpretation tasks.
  
• Perform related duties as assigned.
  

Minimum training required:

• Certification as Russian Language translator and interpreter.
  Certificate of Training required.
  
• American Red Cross certification in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid.
  

Minimum experience required:

• One year experience in Russian Language translation and interpretation.
  
• Experience in invoicing and accounting.
  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
College degree in the Russian language and one year of increasingly responsible experience in translating written documents and providing oral interpretation.

LICENSES AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
Possession of a valid California driver’s license and availability of private transportation (mileage expense allowance provided).

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE OF:

• English vocabulary and that of the designated language equivalent to a person who has graduated from a recognized college or university in the designated language country.
  
• Reading and writing English communication skills and a “native” knowledge of another designated language.
  
• Mining terminology, mining technology, and mine safety concerns.
  
• Bats, bat habitat, and habitat remediation techniques.
  

ABILITY TO:

• Read, speak and write effectively and to express thought between languages, which is structurally, grammatically, and idiomatically correct.
  
• Operate a keyboard in both languages at a net corrected speed of 25 words per minute.
  
• Interpret nuances of languages.
  
• Recognize diacritical errors and apply proper formatting to languages.
  
• Learn the operation of word processing equipment, microcomputers and basic on-line data terminals.
  
• Estimate translation time for assignments and to produce copy ready materials within strict timelines.
  
• Learn and apply welding skills in stick and SMAW techniques in shop and field terrain where Frontier Environmental Solutions does its work.
  
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
  
• Plan and organize work.
  
• Meet schedules and time lines.
  

WORKING CONDITIONS:
ENVIRONMENT:
Office setting in the town of Ridgecrest, California.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Hearing and speaking to exchange information;
  
• seeing to perform assigned duties;
  
• sitting or standing for extended periods of time;
  
• dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and other office equipment;
  
• kneeling, bending at the waist;
  
• reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store files and supplies;
  
• lifting and carrying objects weighing as much as 40 pounds.
  

NOTE: Bilingual skills and abilities are an integral part of this job class and incumbents do not qualify for any bilingual differential.

Pay: Hourly wage between $13.52 and $16.34 per hour.
Pay and benefits will be commensurate with education and experience.

Application Procedures:
Send resume to:
Frontier Environmental Solutions
1539 North China Lake Boulevard PMB 561
Ridgecrest, CA 93555.
Frontier will acknowledge all resumes received. Frontier will not respond to correspondence that does not contain a resume about a single (one) person.

Selection Criteria:
Frontier will select zero, one or multiple persons to fill this position. Frontier will not train persons to meet the requirements of this position.
Applicants that appear to meet the requirements will be contacted by telephone for further information. Frontier will send either an offer of employment or statement that the applicant has not been selected to all acknowledged resumes.