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Henderson Design Group is the UK's leading wallpaper designer, manufacturer, and online retailer, based in Hartlepool. Across our three distinct homeware brands, I Love Wallpaper, Lust Home, and Lucie Annabel, we design, print, sell, and dispatch wallcoverings from our North East operation.

This is not a standard helpdesk job. You will be joining a small in-house IT team supporting a fast-moving ecommerce, manufacturing, warehouse, and digital print business that is actively investing in better systems, automation, and AI tools. We manage our own devices, identity, and network in-house, so there is real technical depth to get into alongside the day-to-day support.

The role

You will support the day-to-day technology used across our office, warehouse, production, and ecommerce operations. That includes practical IT support, user support, devices, printers, accounts, documentation, and business systems. You will also help manage the platforms that sit behind all of it, including our Microsoft device and identity management and our network infrastructure.

Alongside the day-to-day support work, you will also have the chance to get involved in wider IT projects that improve how the business operates. This could include helping staff use AI tools, improving internal workflows, testing new software, supporting reports, documenting better processes, or helping turn manual tasks into smoother digital ways of working.

This role would suit someone who enjoys solving problems, likes variety, communicates well with non-technical people, and wants to build a broader career in IT, systems, automation, and digital tools.

What you'll be doing

• Supporting users across the office, warehouse, production, and ecommerce teams.
• Troubleshooting day-to-day IT issues across computers, printers, scanners, phones, Wi-Fi, accounts, and business software.
• Helping manage our devices and user accounts through Microsoft Intune and Entra ID, including device enrolment, policies, and access.
• Supporting and maintaining our network, including switches, firewalls, Wi-Fi, and connectivity across the site.
• Helping staff make better use of the tools we already have, including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, business systems, and AI tools.
• Getting involved in automation and workflow improvement projects across the business.
• Helping us identify repetitive manual tasks that could be improved with better systems, AI, scripts, forms, reports, or internal tools.
• Supporting our production and warehouse teams with the technology they rely on to keep work moving.
• Keeping IT jobs, devices, documentation, and fixes properly logged and organised.
• Learning from experienced IT colleagues and gradually taking on more responsibility as your skills grow.
• Working on varied projects where you can see the impact of what you have done.

What we're looking for

We are more interested in attitude, problem-solving, and willingness to learn than a long list of certificates. That said, this role has a genuine technical side, so some hands-on experience with device management, identity, or networking will help you hit the ground running.

You might already have some IT support experience, or you might be someone with strong technical interest who is ready to build a proper career in IT.

The right person will be:

• Curious about technology, AI, automation, and how systems can improve a business.
• Practical and hands-on, not afraid to investigate a problem properly.
• Calm and methodical when something is not working.
• Good at explaining things to people who are not technical.
• Organised enough to follow jobs through, document fixes, and keep things tidy.
• Comfortable working in a busy, varied environment.
• Keen to learn from others and develop into a broader IT, systems, or automation role over time.

Useful experience

You do not need all of this, but any of the following would help, and experience with Microsoft device/identity management or networking is strongly desirable:

• Microsoft Intune and Entra ID (Azure AD): device enrolment, compliance and configuration policies, user and access management.
• Networking: switches, firewalls, Wi-Fi, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, and general connectivity troubleshooting.
• IT support, helpdesk, technician, or systems experience.
• Good general knowledge of Windows, macOS, printers, Wi-Fi, accounts, and common software issues.
• Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar.
• Interest in coding, scripting, automation, workflows, or building small tools.
• Experience with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, ERP systems, ecommerce systems, warehouse systems, or manufacturing environments.
• Any IT qualification, apprenticeship, college course, self-taught projects, or personal technical projects.

If you have built things, automated things, fixed things, experimented with AI tools, helped people with tech, or taught yourself how systems work, we would be interested in hearing about it.

What we offer

• From £27,000 per year, depending on experience.
• Full-time, permanent role.
• 37.5 hours per week.
• 28 days holiday including bank holidays.
• Discretionary additional annual leave, increasing with each year of service up to 5 years.
• Free on-site parking.
• A varied in-house IT role with real scope to grow.
• Training and support from experienced IT colleagues.
• Exposure to AI, automation, ecommerce, digital print, manufacturing, warehouse systems, and business software.
• The chance to work on practical projects that improve how the company operates.
• A small team where your ideas, effort, and improvements will actually be noticed.

Benefits: Additional leave, canteen, company pension, cycle to work scheme, discounted or free food, employee discount, free parking, on-site parking, sick pay, store discount.

Ability to commute/relocate: Hartlepool TS24 0RE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required).

Application question(s): What makes you a good fit for this role?

Work Location: In person

Pay: From £27,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Canteen
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hartlepool TS24 0RE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• What makes you a good fit for this role?

Work Location: In person