担当職

English translation: specialist / operations specialist / services specialist

06:52 Aug 10, 2013
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources
Japanese term or phrase: 担当職
Hi all,
I'm translating a document from HR that contains a whole list of Japanese job descriptions and pay grades and I'm stuck on one particular one - "担当職" (and 担当格, which is essentially the same)
Other categories include 管理職, 経営職、習熟職、営業職,一般職 all of which I've managed to find appropriate terms. But for 担当職 I have no idea what to put. (And weblio helpfully suggests "tanto shoku"...)

At the moment all I can think is "Person in Charge"... which is obviously odd.
I can't use "supervisor" because there's 監督職 as well.
And a whole host of other words like 主任、副主任、係長、係員、店長、課長、課長代理 etc etc appear as well, so if possible I need an English word that won't overlap with any of those.

There's no particular "sentence context" because it's just lists of positions and pay grades. So as long as it's a term that I can capitalize to make it seem like a legitimate position then it should be fine.

If anyone can help me then I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance~
Blake Baguley (X)
Japan
Local time: 20:08
English translation:specialist / operations specialist / services specialist
Explanation:
担当 means being in charge of something, and there seems to be lots of job postings for positions called "ABC担当職", with ABC specifying what the person is going to be in charge of.
If all we can tell is that 担当職 will be in charge of SOMETHING specific that we don't know, I would go for "specialist", "operations specialist" or "business specialist" meaning that the person is a specialist in whatever he's doing at work.
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jingle japan
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Thanks for your the idea! I didn't actually end up using the word "specialist" because from the context it seemed like more of an entry-level position. Ended up on Operations Personnel, suitably vague and applicable to anything.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1staff
Yuki Okada
3specialist / operations specialist / services specialist
jingle japan
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Glossaries be d -
Lincoln Hui

  

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staff


Explanation:
I feel sorry for you! This is a kind of job that I would not want to accept. But if I did, I think I would put it as "staff." I think it generally refers to a non-managerial position. In English we tend to say more specifically, such as engineer and technician. The person generally works in a specialized field, rather than being an administrative assistant type of capacity.

Yuki Okada
Canada
Local time: 04:08
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 15
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your help. I would have gone with Staff except because there were so many other instances where I wanted to use "staff" without a capital letter I thought it would create confusion. But thanks for the suggestion!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Patrick
3 hrs
  -> ありがとうございます。
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specialist / operations specialist / services specialist


Explanation:
担当 means being in charge of something, and there seems to be lots of job postings for positions called "ABC担当職", with ABC specifying what the person is going to be in charge of.
If all we can tell is that 担当職 will be in charge of SOMETHING specific that we don't know, I would go for "specialist", "operations specialist" or "business specialist" meaning that the person is a specialist in whatever he's doing at work.

jingle japan
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks for your the idea! I didn't actually end up using the word "specialist" because from the context it seemed like more of an entry-level position. Ended up on Operations Personnel, suitably vague and applicable to anything.
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Reference comments


56 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Glossaries be d -

Reference information:
I think even Japan natives have problem figuring out exactly what 担当職 does - see link 1, and if you looked at the best answer it's actually talking about a jack-of-trades that basically does a bunch of different things.

Also see the description about 担当職 in the second link as well as the daily timetable below, and that seems to be a kind of general support position as well.

So I'm actually going to suggest that you plot out the company's hierarchical structure if possible, figure out what the position's duties are, and try to find a corresponding term, or even make one up.


    Reference: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q114...
    https://shochu-saiyo.com/work/tanto/
Lincoln Hui
Hong Kong
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese, Native in EnglishEnglish
Note to reference poster
Asker: Thanks for the links and the extra information. I took your advice and tried to figure out where 担当 seemed to fit in the hierarchy (trouble is it was actually a document comparing positions across about 10 companies!). I also noticed that 担当職 and 業務職 seemed to be interchangeable in some instances, so followed up that lead and found Operations Personnel.


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  jingle japan: yes it would help to know the hierarchy among these posts.
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