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The additional educational program named as ‘Translator in the sphere of professional communication’ is a particular type of vocational training programs, which is currently realized in a variety of technical universities in the Russian Federation. This program is aimed at students majoring in different engineering fields who are driven by a desire to obtain an additional qualification of a translator as well as to develop their communicative competence in English as a foreign language (EFL). The student body traditionally applying to this program varies from junior bachelor students to mature post-graduate ones. These students are motivated by special needs to become highly competent translators to support and advance their engineering careers. The best way to address these needs is to create a special learning environment which would stimulate non-linguist students, on the one hand, to form translation skills, and, on the other hand, to enhance their foreign language communicative competence development. The article examines peculiar features of organization and realization of the training program on the platform of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), one of the oldest technical higher educational institutions in the Asian part of the Russian Federation. In the article, the author introduced a theoretical model of the program realization. This model has been tested for over 15 years. Learning outcomes, which are to be demonstrated by intended translators by the end of the study, are also specified in this article. In addition, the author identified its main structural components presented by such learning modules as Introduction into language studies, Development of EFL communication skills, and Theory and practice in translation.