Language Compliance Strategist

This position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week. This arrangement is subject to change based on business requirements.

Since our story took off in 1996, West Jet has strived to enrich the lives of everyone in our world; a career with us is no exception. We’re proud to be one of Canada’s most admired and respected corporate cultures and continuously aim for the highest standards of service and success.

The West Jet Translation Services team is looking for a Language Compliance Strategist to manage a high volume of requests submitted by internal teams, with a strong focus on heavy post-editing of machine-translated content from English into Canadian French.

The successful candidate will review, correct and improve machine-translated content to ensure it is accurate, natural, appropriate for the context, and aligned with West Jet’s terminology and quality standards. This includes rewriting content when necessary, improving structure and readability, and determining when content requires full human translation or, in certain cases, transcreation.

This West Jetter is an experienced language professional who can work efficiently in a technology-enabled environment while providing practical guidance and support to client teams, project teams, frontline employees and West Jetters across the organization.

• Manage a high daily volume of words across multiple projects and content types (e.g., policies, procedures, training documents, etc.) while meeting tight deadlines and maintaining high linguistic quality.
• Determine whether content requires post-editing, translation, or adaptation.
• Translate, proofread, and adapt content when machine translation is unsuitable.
• Maintain translation memories, termbases, and style guides, and improve language workflows and machine translation output.
• Use tools such as Trados and Language Weaver.
• Provide language guidance and collaborate with internal teams.

• At least 3 to 6 years of experience in English-to-French translation, editing or language services, with a demonstrated ability to manage high daily volumes of content in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high-quality standards and meeting multiple competing deadlines.
• Strong experience with heavy post-editing of machine-translated content into publication-ready Canadian French.
• Sound judgment in choosing between post-editing, translation, rewriting, and adaptation.
• Exceptional French editing, rewriting and proofreading skills.
• Ability to evaluate content ecosystems, workflows and governance models to identify opportunities that advance organizational francization goals.
• Experience supporting francization initiatives within large, complex organizations operating in regulated environments is an asset.
• Experience working with AI-powered language solutions to support translation, post-editing, content adaptation and linguistic quality assurance, with the ability to assess their effectiveness and appropriate use cases.
• Strong knowledge of the French-Canadian language and culture.
• Advanced experience with translation and machine-translation tools, including Trados and Language Weaver.
• Degree in Translation, or a Translation Certificate combined with significant professional experience.

West Jet provides all West Jetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

• A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
• Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date
• Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs