Quantity Surveyor

Senior Quantity Surveyor (MEP or CSA)

Location: Luxembourg
 

Soben, part of Accenture

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At Soben, part of Accenture, we believe our greatest strength is our people. Your growth is central to our success, and we are committed to helping you build a career you can be proud of.

As an award-winning construction consultancy, Soben has built a reputation for technical excellence, client focus, and delivery certainty. Following our acquisition by Accenture’s Infrastructure & Capital Projects practice within Industry X, we are combining specialist construction expertise with world-class technology, digital innovation, and global reach.

This creates exciting opportunities for our people:

• Access to industry-leading technology and digital project delivery tools
• Opportunities to work on major data centre, infrastructure, energy, pharmaceutical, and mission-critical projects
• Exposure to international clients and globally recognised programmes
• Accelerated career development within a growing global organisation
• A collaborative and innovative environment where your ideas can make an impact

Whether through mentoring, formal training, or challenging projects, every step of your career journey is an opportunity to develop your expertise and shape your future.

The Opportunity

Soben, part of Accenture, is seeking an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor with a background in either Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing (MEP) or Civil, Structural & Architectural (CSA) disciplines to join our growing team in Luxembourg.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the commercial delivery of major construction and infrastructure projects across sectors including data centres, advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, energy, and mission-critical facilities.

The successful candidate will provide both pre-contract and post-contract commercial support, delivering robust cost management, procurement, estimating, contract administration, and financial control services throughout the project lifecycle.

You will work alongside leading clients, consultants, contractors, and project teams, helping to ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and within budget while driving value for our clients.

Key ResponsibilitiesCost Management & Commercial Delivery

• Deliver full pre-contract and post-contract quantity surveying services across major construction and infrastructure projects.
• Prepare cost plans, estimates, budgets, and financial reports throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor project costs, commitments, variations, and forecasts to ensure commercial objectives are achieved.
• Provide commercial advice to clients and project teams to support informed decision-making.
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities and develop mitigation strategies.

Procurement & Contract Management

• Support procurement and tendering activities, including tender analysis, evaluation, and recommendations.
• Prepare bills of quantities, contract documentation, and procurement reports.
• Administer contracts and manage change control processes.
• Review and evaluate contractor applications, variations, and final accounts.
• Manage commercial communications between project stakeholders.

MEP or CSA Cost ExpertiseFor MEP Candidates

• Analyse and evaluate costs associated with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and specialist building systems.
• Review MEP design development and assess commercial implications of design changes.
• Advise on procurement strategies and market trends associated with building services systems.

For CSA Candidates

• Analyse and evaluate costs associated with civil works, structural packages, architectural elements, and building fabric.
• Review CSA design development and assess cost impacts throughout project evolution.
• Support procurement and commercial management of enabling works, foundations, structure, façades, and architectural packages.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with clients, consultants, designers, contractors, and supply chain partners.
• Participate in project meetings and provide commercial updates to stakeholders.
• Build strong client relationships and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.
• Support multidisciplinary project teams in achieving successful project outcomes.

Continuous Improvement & Leadership

• Support the development and enhancement of commercial best practices.
• Contribute to cost benchmarking and market intelligence databases.
• Share knowledge and lessons learned across project teams.
• Mentor and support junior quantity surveyors and commercial professionals.
• Contribute to Soben's collaborative and high-performance culture.

Qualifications & ExperienceEssential

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5–10 years' experience in quantity surveying, commercial management, or cost management roles.
• Strong experience within either MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) or CSA (Civil, Structural & Architectural) construction disciplines.
• Proven experience delivering commercial services on major construction, infrastructure, industrial, pharmaceutical, data centre, or mission-critical projects.
• Strong understanding of procurement, contract administration, cost management, and change control processes.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial acumen.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.

Preferred

• Professional accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, or equivalent.
• Experience working within a consultancy environment.
• Knowledge of Luxembourg and wider European construction markets.
• Experience working within NEC, FIDIC, or other international contract forms.
• Data centre, advanced manufacturing, energy, pharmaceutical, or infrastructure project experience.
• Fluency in English, with French and/or German language skills considered advantageous.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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