Graduate IT Support Specialist

Date: Aug 18, 2026

Location: Manchester, GB

Company: franke

About Franke

We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

The Franke Home Solutions division is the world’s leading provider of smart systems for domestic kitchens. Drawing on a long history of reliability and expertise, we help our partners enhance their businesses and provide outstanding kitchen and cooking experiences to our consumers by offering complete solutions for food preparation and cooking.

About the job

You are a member of an international team and located at Franke in Manchester. Your main task is to support the IT Users on site. You will also be responsible for a site in Falkirk, Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham. In addition, you will get in touch with employees and IT Service Desk team members in other locations in EMEA.

Contract : 2 years

Your tasks

  • 1st and 2nd level support within region
  • Joiner / Mover / Leaver handling with ServiceNow
  • Software provisioning with SCCM (Franke Standard Applications)
  • Client hardware installation & maintenance (desktop, laptop, VoIP soft phones, tablet, terminal, barcode scanner, laser printer, label printer, copier)
  • Server hardware installation & maintenance (Storage and VMs)
  • Network support (LAN) and monitoring of WAN
  • Server Room maintenance (local contact for Platform Services)
  • Mobile devices (IOS)
  • Introduction of new users
  • Asset & Licence Management
  • Vulnerability Management for soft & hardware
  • Team member of projects

 

Requirements

  • Relevant educational qualifications
  • Additional trainings for Microsoft (MCP level) and Cisco Meraki
  • 3 Years work experience in the IT Service Desk area
  • ICT service operations
  • Basic ITIL knowledge
  • Broad technical skills hardware, OS & software (Microsoft, mobile devices)
  • Basic technical skills Server OS, network, storage (SAN)
  • Basic application architecture know-how
  • Good analytical and conceptual abilities.
  • Independent, but with team skills for dealing with IS specialists and key users
  • Open and communicative, like dealing with people
  • Flexibility and willingness to travel, driving license required.
  • English language skills C2 = Level 16 (oral and writing)

What we offer you

  • an exciting and varied job in an international environment
  • a work environment which promotes further growth and continuing education
  • modern employment conditions
  • Employee Benefits

For more information see:  www.franke.com

       

 

            

 

Important information for all executive search companies, headhunters and HR consultants

The Franke Group does not accept unsolicited support from headhunters and personnel consultants for our career opportunities. Any CV/resume vitae submitted to Franke or its employees by external recruitment agencies without a valid written recruitment agreement related to the position in question shall be deemed the sole property of our company. In the event that a candidate presented by an agency is hired in our company and there is no prior agreement, no fee will be paid.