For engineering consultancies

Win more tenders and attract better engineers.

 

We’re a Perth engineering marketing agency helping consultancies win work and recruit engineers through capability statements, websites and LinkedIn that show the depth of your team, with people you can call.

 

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How engineering clients pick a consultancy

Very few clients choose an engineering consultancy from a Google ad. A project director hears your name from a peer and opens your capability statement. Then they scan your project list and look up your proposed leads on LinkedIn. By the time an RFT lands, most shortlists are already set.

That makes engineering marketing a credibility job first and a lead job second. Your website, templates and LinkedIn presence have to show depth to a technical reader, and they have to look like one firm across every office. The same material does your recruiting too, because senior engineers vet a firm the way clients do.

We’ve worked with a global engineering and project management firm, a surveyor, energy-sector engineers and a multi-company group across defence, oil and gas and marine.

Capability statements and tender templates that match your best bid

Your capability statement gets forwarded to people you’ll never meet: procurement leads, client-side engineers, a JV partner. If it looks different from your proposal template and your website, it reads like three firms. Our graphic design team builds capability statements, tender templates and presentation decks as one system your bid team can fill in.

When we refreshed Lycopodium’s brand, we revised the logo, colour palette and tone of voice. We then carried them through a capability statement, presentation templates and the website. If you’re bidding on more than a few jobs a quarter, fix your templates before you touch advertising. Every evaluator sees them.

Websites that put your project record up front

Engineering buyers check your project list before they ask about rates. Your website should let a client find a relevant job by sector, region or project type in a couple of clicks. An interactive map showing where your projects are does that at a glance.

If you’re a smaller consultancy, a fully custom build may be more than you need. A modular approach to WordPress website design keeps branded front-end styling to a minimum. That keeps the cost down without giving up SEO.

Employer branding for the engineers you're trying to hire

Senior engineers have options, and they research you as hard as your clients do. They want to know who they’d work with, which projects they’d join and whether your website’s culture matches the office. A clear employer brand gives them a reason to choose you over the firm offering the same salary.

Values work best when they’re short enough to remember, like three lines on an office wall. We carry them into signage and the website, and arrange a photoshoot so the brand has real faces.

LinkedIn your engineers can run themselves

LinkedIn is where engineering firms get seen by clients and candidates at once. A project director posting about a milestone tends to travel further than the same news from the company page, because people follow people. We set the strategy, write the first rounds of posts and run LinkedIn Ads where paid reach is worth it.

We can review your LinkedIn presence, build an approach that suits your firm and train your team to run it. If you’ve got two or three engineers who like writing, start with them before you spend on ads. You’ll learn what your market responds to for the cost of their time.

SEO for the specialist services clients search for

Search volumes in engineering are small and specific. Someone typing a niche service and a location is often a client-side engineer with a scope in mind. A few of those visits can outweigh thousands of general clicks. Our SEO work concentrates on those service and sector pages.

Renaming services or merging sites is where firms lose rankings they took years to earn. We map redirects from every old page to its closest new counterpart before launch. If you’re planning a rebrand, bring the website migration plan in at the start.

One brand across subsidiaries and offices

Engineering groups grow through acquisitions and new offices, each arriving with its own logo, website and story. Clients end up unsure who does what, and staff in one office feel they work for a different company.

We start with a UX review and technical audit, then build a site that sets out the company structure clearly. If you’re adding a subsidiary, decide early whether it keeps its own name. That one brand strategy call shapes everything after it.

Showing up when clients ask ChatGPT for a consultancy

Some client-side engineers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google’s AI Overviews to suggest consultancies before they ask a colleague, and we expect that to grow. Those tools draw on pages that state clearly what you do, where and for whom, and on outside mentions that back it up.

Our generative engine optimisation work tightens your service and sector pages so those tools can read them, and builds the citations they rely on. If your SEO foundations are shaky, fix those first. The same pages do both jobs.

How we helped Lycopodium unite its offices under one global brand.

  • Revised Lycopodium’s logo, colour palette and tone of voice to match the quality of their engineering and project management work.
  • Rolled the brand out across a capability statement, presentation templates, business cards and the website.
  • Modernised the website graphics and built an interactive feature map to show the breadth of their projects.
  • Project managed an international video on the company’s history and future direction to strengthen internal culture.
  • Organised a worldwide brand launch event for the Lycopodium team and the wider industry.

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Two engineers reviewing project drawings, from Lycopodium’s brand photography

How we helped MNG move to a new website and improve its rankings.

  • MNG provides surveying and spatial services to the land development, resources and infrastructure sectors across Australia.
  • Designed a sales-focused website showing the extent of their services, built on their brand concept of the natural and digital worlds colliding.
  • Built two sites on one theme, with every component able to change visually so each stayed distinct, and tied in the MNG Access portal.
  • Mapped redirects from every old page to its closest new counterpart, giving better rankings for core search terms and more visibility with no downtime.
  • Rob Kiernan, Group Business Development Manager: “Working with the creative Distl team from our very technical team produced a great result which we are immensely proud of.”

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An MNG surveyor setting up survey equipment on site, photographed for their new website

How we helped Mount Engineering build an employer brand and a LinkedIn presence it runs itself.

  • Ran branding workshops and research to develop new messaging and a new brand identity for this project management, business analysis and technology firm.
  • Set objectives that included internal pride in the brand and a more attractive employer brand for potential employees.
  • Built a modular website that minimised front-end styling for branded elements, keeping cost down while keeping SEO impact.
  • Analysed their LinkedIn presence, built a custom approach and trained their team to run it.

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Mount Engineering new brand identity applied to printed collateral

Got a tender season coming up?

Talk to us before the next round of bids. We’ll go through your capability statement, templates and website with you and say what we’d fix first.

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Common questions about engineering marketing

We win most of our work through relationships. Why spend money on marketing?

Because relationships get you onto the shortlist and your material decides what happens next. Once someone mentions your name, the client’s team checks your website, your project list and the LinkedIn profiles of the people you’ve proposed. If those look thin or dated, you lose ground before the tender opens. Most of our engineering work starts with brand, templates and the website for that reason.

Do engineering firms need Google Ads?

Usually not as a first step. Searches for specialist engineering services are few, and plenty of the clicks come from students, job seekers or suppliers. If you sell a defined local service, such as surveying or inspections, a tightly targeted Google Ads Search campaign can be worth running. If you’re a consultancy selling large, bespoke scopes, put the budget into your website, SEO and LinkedIn first.

How do we market to clients and candidates at the same time?

With one brand and two sets of proof. Clients want project outcomes, capability and a safety record. Candidates want to see the projects, the people and how you treat staff. Your website can carry both, with a projects section and a careers section that share the same look and voice. On LinkedIn, one post about a project milestone reaches both groups, which is why we lean on your engineers’ own profiles.

Each of our offices has its own look. How do you bring them together without a fight?

Start with the people who’ll use the brand. We run workshops with leaders from each office, in person in Perth and by video for everyone else, and agree what the firm stands for. Then we roll that into templates, signage and the website so every office gets something useful on day one. When we refreshed Lycopodium’s brand, they needed it to unite their team across offices locally and abroad. A worldwide brand launch event gave the whole team, and the wider industry, one clear message.

How much of our engineers' time will this take?

Less than a tender. Expect a workshop or two at the start, then a technical review of anything that makes a claim about your capability. We write the drafts and your engineers check the facts. For LinkedIn, we’ll have a short conversation with an engineer about a project and turn it into a post they can approve quickly. Your account manager keeps the list of things waiting on you short.

We're merging with another firm. When should marketing get involved?

Before the announcement. Clients and staff will search for the new name the day the news breaks. Your website, LinkedIn pages and email signatures need to be ready. If service names or URLs are changing, plan redirects early so you keep the rankings both firms earned. For MNG, mapping every old page to its closest new page meant the move happened with no downtime.

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How it feels to work with Distl

Built around tender deadlines

We start by asking when your big tenders close and when your graduate intake opens, because those dates shape the plan. Template and capability updates land before bid season. Employer brand work lines up with your recruitment campaigns. Your account manager keeps those dates in view and reviews them with you in quarterly planning. We’ll plan around submission weeks so marketing reviews don’t land when your bid team is flat out.

Face to face in Perth

For Perth offices and sites, we’ll come to you. We can walk the office, sit in on a project review or join a site visit with one of our Perth partner photographers. Photos of your own people and projects tell a technical buyer far more than stock images. For regional sites and interstate or overseas offices, we’ll talk it through by video call and agree how to keep the photography consistent.

Your engineers check the facts

Every technical claim goes through a reviewer you nominate, usually a senior engineer or discipline lead. We write, they check, and a Distl lead signs off the final version before it goes anywhere. That keeps project figures, standards and capability claims accurate. It also means your senior people trust what’s published under their names, so they share it with their networks rather than ignore it.

Brand, web and marketing in one room

The designer working on your capability statement sits near the developer building your project pages and the specialist running your LinkedIn Ads. A rollout like Lycopodium’s, from logo to website to launch event, can run as one project with one account manager. You won’t spend your week coordinating four suppliers who’ve never met, and nobody has to re-explain your firm from scratch.

Make your firm as easy to trust as your engineering

Tell us what you’re bidding for and who you’re trying to hire. We’ll come back with what we’d fix first, and what we’d leave alone.

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