Fractional Director of Facilities
Johnson Advisory Group provides experienced facilities, construction, and capital-project leadership for growing organizations that need senior-level ownership of the function without adding another full-time management position.
The Management Gap
Growing companies accumulate vendors, service contracts, preventive-maintenance obligations, aging equipment, capital needs, and active projects well before they build a dedicated facilities department.
Responsibility ends up distributed. A service contract is signed by Finance. A vendor is managed by a site manager. A capital request is raised by Operations. An equipment failure escalates to ownership. Each of those decisions is reasonable on its own.
What is missing is the layer above them — consolidated spend visibility, a maintenance program that is actually enforced, a capital plan that looks past the current fiscal year, and one person accountable for the condition of the portfolio.
Johnson Advisory Group creates a single point of senior accountability.
Where the function sits
This is a management layer, not a replacement for your staff or your vendors. Organizations with maintenance technicians, coordinators, or building engineers already in place are often the strongest fit — the internal team gains the senior leadership it has been operating without.
Scope of Ownership
Preventive maintenance, facility priorities, recurring issues, service standards, and repair-versus-replace decisions.
Program oversight
Sourcing, proposal and scope comparison, contract review, performance management, and vendor accountability.
Commercial review
Annual facilities budgeting, equipment replacement forecasting, lifecycle planning, and multi-year capital priorities.
Budget & forecast
Renovations, expansions, equipment installations, infrastructure upgrades, bid review, and contractor coordination.
Project oversight
Critical asset review, emergency preparedness, infrastructure resilience, and facility continuity planning.
Risk register
Monthly visibility into facility condition, spending, open items, vendor performance, and upcoming decisions.
Board-ready
The Model
Fractional leadership is not a reduced version of the role. It is director-level responsibility applied at the level your portfolio actually requires.
The comparison is not a full-time employee against a part-time consultant. It is full-time internal facilities leadership against outsourced senior facilities leadership — the same ownership of the function, sized to the organization.
| Full-time Facilities Director | Fractional Facilities Director |
|---|---|
| $120K–$180K+ base salary | Engagement sized to actual need |
| Benefits, payroll burden, and PTO coverage | No employee benefit burden |
| Recruiting cycle and onboarding ramp | Faster deployment |
| Fixed headcount on the org chart | Flexible engagement that scales with the portfolio |
| Full-time capacity, whether or not the portfolio requires it | Capacity aligned with facility complexity |
| Senior leadership | Senior leadership |
Get the level of facilities leadership your portfolio actually requires.
Services
Ongoing Leadership
Johnson Advisory Group becomes the accountable senior leader for your facilities function — operations, vendors, capital, projects, risk, and executive reporting.
Project-Based
Independent oversight during significant capital projects, focused on your budget, schedule, risk, and business objectives — not the contractor's.
Project-Based
A structured read on condition, risk, maintenance maturity, vendors, and capital priorities — for organizations not yet ready for an ongoing engagement.
Currently Recruiting
A fractional or interim model can provide experienced facilities leadership now — while you recruit, reassess the position, or determine whether the organization actually requires another permanent management role.
Your organization may need the function without needing another full-time management position.
Johnson Advisory Group can
Engagements are structured as interim leadership, bridge support during recruiting, senior management above existing facilities staff, or long-term fractional leadership.
Fit
A portfolio requiring centralized oversight rather than site-by-site improvisation.
Facilities, equipment, and building systems that materially affect operations.
Recurring repairs, replacements, renovations, and expansion competing for the same budget.
Responsibility currently distributed across finance, operations, ownership, and site management.
Typical engagements involve organizations with roughly 50–500 employees and multiple facilities, though facility complexity matters more than company size alone. A single complex manufacturing, warehouse, healthcare, or industrial facility can qualify on its own. Johnson Advisory Group works with facility-intensive organizations across healthcare and veterinary groups, pharmacy, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, dealerships, private schools, restaurant and hospitality groups, senior care, regional retail, and private-equity portfolio companies.
About
Johnson Advisory Group is led by Joshua Johnson, who leads construction and facilities responsibilities across a multi-site pharmaceutical organization — serving as a primary point of contact for facility operations, capital projects, contractors, vendors, critical infrastructure, and compliance-sensitive facility initiatives.
That is the difference between advisory work built from practice and advisory work built from theory. The systems, the vendor conversations, the capital arguments, and the 2 a.m. equipment failures are current experience, not case studies.
“I built my experience the slow way, in the field and in the job trailer, solving problems in high-stakes facilities and projects, learning firsthand how quickly a project can drift when no one speaks for the owner.”
Joshua Johnson, Founder
Johnson Advisory Group is built as a firm rather than a personal practice, structured so the function can scale with coordinators, managers, and project staff as client engagements grow.
How Engagements Work
Step One
Understand the portfolio, facilities, vendors, contracts, active projects, risks, staffing, and the current management structure — including what is working and should be left alone.
Step Two
Create priorities, accountability, reporting, vendor structure, maintenance systems, and capital visibility. Onboarding produces a facility risk register, vendor matrix, PM calendar, and 12-month facilities priorities.
Step Three
Provide ongoing facilities leadership and serve as the senior management point for the function — running the cadence, owning the decisions, and reporting to executive leadership.
Get Started
If facilities responsibility is spread across leadership, operations, site managers, maintenance personnel, and vendors, Johnson Advisory Group can provide the senior leadership layer that brings it together.
Fractional Director engagements typically start around $5,000 per month and scale based on portfolio size, facility complexity, site presence, and required involvement. Engagements begin with a one-time onboarding and transition phase that produces your risk register, vendor matrix, PM calendar, and 12-month priorities.
A 20-minute conversation about your portfolio, your current structure, and whether a fractional model fits.
Thank you — your details are in. Johnson Advisory Group will follow up directly to arrange the call.
Something urgent in the meantime? joshua@jag-usa.com