Freelance Wayfinding & Signage Auditors, Fitzpatrick Woolmer wide

As we continue to secure signage audit and way finding projects across the UK,
we’re looking to build a nationwide network of experienced Freelance Wayfinding & Signage Auditors who can work with us on a project-by-project basis.

We’re looking for trusted associates located throughout the country who would be happy to represent

Fitzpatrick Woolmer on site, carrying out professional signage and way finding audits on our behalf and becoming an extension of the FW team.

Our projects can take us anywhere in the UK.

Rather than routinely sending people hundreds of miles across the country, we want to develop relationships with talented specialists based closer to the projects we’re delivering.

As well as making practical sense, this supports Fitzpatrick Woolmer’s sustainability commitments by helping us reduce unnecessary travel, mileage and the associated carbon footprint of our projects.

The aim is simple: to create a trusted network of FW associates across the country who we can call upon when projects arise in their area.

No two sites are quite the same.

One assignment might involve assessing signage across a town or city; another could involve spending a full day exploring routes through a large park or estate.

Depending on the project, you could be:

• Undertaking comprehensive signage and way finding audits
• Conducting and recording stakeholder interviews
• Surveying key visitor and pedestrian journeys
• Identifying important decision points and potential navigation problems
• Recording existing sign locations, types and condition
• Photographing and documenting signage systematically
• Identifying missing, redundant, poorly positioned or ineffective signs
• Making recommendations for sign types and locations
• Considering accessibility and inclusive way finding
• Recording observations against plans, schedules and audit documentation
• Gathering accurate information for our way finding, design and project teams
• Representing Fitzpatrick Woolmer professionally when meeting clients and stakeholders on site

Some audits can involve long days and cover considerable distances, so you will need to be comfortable with the physical demands of site surveying and working outdoors in varying environments and weather conditions.

First and foremost, we’re looking for people who understand way finding
.

You’ll be observant, methodical and able to look at an environment from the visitor’s perspective – understanding not simply where signs are positioned, but whether people are receiving the right information, in the right place, at the right point in their journey.

Ideally, you’ll have experience in one or more of the following:

• Wayfinding and signage auditing
• Signage surveying
• Environmental graphic design
• Visitor journey analysis
• Public realm or placemaking
• Transport, pedestrian or visitor environments
• Signage design and implementation

Experience reading plans and accurately recording information, locations, dimensions and photographic references will also be important.

Wayfinding design skills would be a real bonus

If you’re equally comfortable analysing a site and contributing to the subsequent way finding or signage design process, we’d particularly like to hear from you.

This isn’t about filling a single freelance position.

We’re creating a preferred nationwide network of specialists that we can develop relationships with and call upon as new projects arise.

For the right people, that could mean opportunities to work with Fitzpatrick Woolmer across a varied portfolio of projects and environments while continuing to operate independently.

We want our clients to receive the same professional FW experience wherever their project is located, so reliability, communication and the confidence to represent Fitzpatrick Woolmer professionally on site will be just as important as technical knowledge.