Fanny Leberquier has worked at SPIE since 2013, starting as an energy efficiency engineer and becoming business manager for maintenance in 2016. She now manages a team of three people at SPIE Facilities, ensuring customer satisfaction and financial profitability. She enjoys optimizing energy performance through large projects and working closely with customers.

1. What is your background?
Fanny Leberquier: While I was still studying at the INSA engineering school in eastern
France, I had a work/study internship contract as a design engineer with a major group.
This gave me the opportunity to gain some experience, but especially to work on an energy
performance contract for carrying out energy-saving works in municipal buildings. Thanks
to this final-year project, I managed to persuade SPIE Est to hire me as an energy efficiency
engineer in 2013. Things went very well, and in 2016 I became a business manager
in maintenance. And since January 2017, I have been working for SPIE Facilities, a new
subsidiary specialising specialising in building maintenance and facility management.
Which role do you play at SPIE Facilities?
F.L.: I manage a team of three people in a multi-technical maintenance operating unit.
Every day, I make sure the customers are satisfied by checking that all our technical
operations are running smoothly, I ensure we have good relationships with customers
I keep an eye on the financial profitability of the business, I submit tenders, I am involved
in recruiting technicians… People often say I’m like a mini-entrepreneur!
What motivates you the most?
F.L.: I like to play a full part in implementing large-scale energy performance projects.
And I often have to work closely with our customers in all the lifecycles phases of their
projects – I really enjoy this human side to my job!
Optimising the energy performance of a building is the passion of 28-year-old
Fanny Leberquier. A fully trained engineer, she has been appointed business manager
for maintenance at SPIE Facilities, the SPIE Group’s new subsidiary.
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“They say I’m like a
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2. How did you come to join SPIE?
Matthieu Dalloz: At the time I was studying electronic engineering and computer science
at the ESIREM engineering school in eastern France, I also used to organise mountain bike
competitions. It so happened that SPIE was one of the sponsors. Although I didn’t know
the company at all, I had the opportunity to meet senior managers in eastern France. I was
attracted by the diversity of its activities, and I was able to do my final-year internship there
in 2005, after which I was hired. At the start I worked on setting up a CRM (Customer
Relationship Management) platform, then I moved on to a post as a business manager
in the electrical department, and then I ended up specialising in protection and security.
Last year, for instance, I worked on a motor-racing circuit for which we have created a single
interface that manages all the systems – video protection, TV broadcasting, access control,
intrusion control, and so on. It was fascinating.
What have you gained from the SPIE Talents programme.
M.D.: I was asked to take part in the “SPIE Talents” programme intended to develop people
with what’s known as a “high potential” profile. It’s an extremely comprehensive training
package, covering management, marketing and leadership. Thanks to this training, I could
move on to a new project for 2017, setting up a Smart Buildings department as part of
our subsidiary.
You have spent just over ten years in the company. Why have you stayed?
M.D.: The diversity of the projects on which I work –supermarkets, hospitals, an air base –
means that I am constantly encountering very different environments behind the scenes, in
areas to which very few people have access. And so I have to face new challenges on an
almost daily basis.
Matthieu Dalloz, aged 34, is an expert in safety and security systems.
As a business manager at SPIE in eastern France, he is responsible
for providing protection for sensitive sites
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“The technical diversity
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3. Why did you opt for thise international volunteer programme when you had finished
your studies?
Charlène Boudet: After completing my Masters in sustainable human resources and
diversity management at the Montpellier Business School, I wanted to gain international
professional experience. In my opinion, if you want to prove your adaptability and if you
are willing to work outside of your comfort zone, you have to experience new cultures
and different working methods, ways of doing… The International Exchange Programme
offers lots of opportunities for this purpose. There are not only tax advantages, it is also
a good way of proving yourself in a company in the hope you will then get hired.
Why did you choose SPIE?
C.B.: On a special website for placements of the International Exchange Programme,
I saw an offer posted by SPIE. Even though I didn’t know the company, and even though
Belgium, the country concerned, wasn’t my first choice, the job offered attracted me straight
away. Although I had been involved in sourcing during a previous internship, when I found
out that this didn’t fit me at all, I have been offered a much more varied position by SPIE.
What does your role consist of concretely?
C.B.: I have a double role. For SPIE Operations, I’m the ambassador for the International
Exchange Programme both in-house and for external targets, such as students. It’s my
job to raise awareness of the system and its advantages. For the SPIE Belgium subsidiary,
I take part in more operational HR duties, such as recruitment, training management and
onboarding new hires. I enjoy significant autonomy but I’m still learning from the teams.
They are transferring their knowledge to me. It really makes me want to commit myself
wholeheartedly!
Charlène Boudet, 27, a graduate in human resources management,
recently joined SPIE in Brussels as part of the International Exchange Programme
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to progressively become
autonomous.”

4. What is your career path?
Christophe Friboulet: Engineer by profession, I worked for ten years as a technical
services manager in the industry and then I worked another ten years being in charge
of a profit centre. I branched out into the field of operational excellence for a year,
but that meant losing contact with customers, which I like most. So in 2016, when
Philippe Linden, operational director of SPIE Est, got in touch with me on LinkedIn
to offer me a position in business development, I jumped at it! Today, I am business
development manager for industrial maintenance.
What role do you play at SPIE?
C.F.: We are fortunate enough to have an extensive and dense network of in-house
engineering and process planning resources and specialist technicians specialised
in all maintenance-related trades electrical and mechanical engineering and HVAC
(Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning). My job consists of offering a multi-technical
maintenance contract tailored to my customers’ needs. Alongside that, I take part
in defining a strategic approach to industrial maintenance, I manage a sales network,
and I work with the Human Resources team, helping them recruit the best profiles.
Have you found what you were looking for when you joined SPIE?
C.F.: Absolutely… and even more! At first, I simply thought I was adding another string
to my bow by working in business development in the HVAC sector, which is my area
of focus in engineering. But what I’m doing today is providing my customers with
a much broader range of technical expertise, which makes my job very cross-functional
and much more interesting.
As business development manager for industrial maintenance at SPIE Est,
Christophe Friboulet, 46, supports operational departments and develops the maintenance
for customers’ industrial facilities by offering multi-technical contractual solutions.
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“SPIE’s multi-technical
offer makes my job
very cross-functional”