Project management

With so many fast-changing pressures on rail organisations, important projects can be side-tracked or shunted between stakeholders. And they're often difficult to set up and control in the first place, when they cut across infrastructure management, construction, manufacturing and train operation.

We solve this problem. Individual organisations and groups find that outsourcing project management to QinetiQ often provides the most effective, efficient and cost-effective path to the right solutions.

We have years of project management experience in the rail industry, in every aspect of the business from procurement to engineering solutions. We know how to match the optimum level of resource to the scale of the project, with a project manager and cross-functional team setting up the plan and then delivering all the way down the line.

It's an end-to-end commitment. We provide project management training so that all team members - and staff in supporting roles - share the same understanding and objectives.

Then the team develops the concept and the plan, then bids for the work - often in a competitive market - and delivers successfully to the customer, before closing the project.

Because there's such a range of skills and expertise within QinetiQ, it's easy to support project management with business consultancy, investment and supplier management, operations support, and standards development and monitoring. And of course, there's our unrivalled technological expertise in transport systems.