Job Overview
We are seeking an individual with a rare caliber of professional hunger to step into an ownership-heavy role. This is not a typical entry-level position. It is a launching pad designed for someone with the trajectory of a junior executive—someone who wants to bypass corporate bureaucracy, master the high-stakes world of Government Contracting and build/command massive technical portfolios.

Mandatory Core Requirement: Obsession & Drive

Read this carefully: We care about your output and resultant outcomes, your agency, and your resilience. If you need a pre-written playbook handed to you, you will fail here. If you have a pathological need to build entire company divisions from scratch, learn new niche skillsets and out-work the competition, you will thrive. We value results focused personal drive above all else.

Responsibilities
You will be thrown directly into the fire, working alongside executive leadership and veteran technical architects. Your responsibilities will expand exactly as fast as your capabilities allow.

What You Will Own

• Business Development: You will find and build the pipeline for RDT&E and IT Services. This will include investigation of opportunity, developing Gate reviews for ownership approval, development of a project plan, identification and costing of resources and bid submission.
• Cost Accountability: Develop project cost workups, price volumes and then track and maintain cost levels to protect profit. Assist with bookkeeping and management of multiple simultaneous budgets.
• Talent Acquisition: Find and identify the key personnel and workforce necessary to accomplish any given contract.
• RDT&E Services Delivery: Lead Program Managers in coordinating and executing research, developmental testing, and hardware/software evaluation cycles for critical aerospace and defense-related environments. Ensure quality, profit and schedule are maintained.
• IT Services Delivery: Lead Program Managers in coordinating and executing Tier 1 and Tier 2 IT Support Services. Ensure quality, profit and schedule are maintained.
• Corporate Compliance: Learn the structural components of executing federal contracts, ensuring compliance, tracking deliverables, and maintaining technical performance matrices.
• Technical Problem Solving: Treat every bottleneck, system crash, or operational delay as your personal problem. You will diagnose root causes and pitch real solutions to leadership, not just report issues.

Who You Are

• Relentless: You do not care what it takes to accomplish a task. You don’t quit until the task is completed. You believe in true exempt employee status and will outwork anyone else in the company.
• Unforgivingly Proactive: You do not wait for a green light when a system is broken or an optimization can be made. You act, and you communicate transparently with company growth always driving your actions.
• Technically Curious: You might not have an engineering degree, but you have an insatiable curiosity to learn how projects are executed in order to successfully bid and manage those projects.
• Extreme Ownership Mentality: When a project fails or an obstacle arises, your immediate response is "How do I fix this?" rather than "Who can I blame?"
• Clearance Eligible: Due to the nature of our federal contracting portfolios, candidates must be US citizens and capable of passing comprehensive background investigations to obtain a security clearance.

What We Offer in Return

• Zero Glass Ceilings: At other companies your growth is bound by organizational charts. At Lava Valley Solutions, your growth is limited only by your own capacity. If you perform like an executive, you will be rewarded and promoted like one.
• Direct Mentorship: Daily exposure to company leadership with Fortune 500 executive experience and industry-recognized technical pioneers who will actively invest in your career velocity.
• Total Autonomy: We trade corporate micromanagement for 100% ownership of your domains.
• Unlimited Performance-Based Upside: A competitive base salary accompanied by explicit, milestone-driven bonuses tied directly to contract successes and company breakthroughs.

Pay: $54,469.23 - $67,640.36 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off

Work Location: In person