10 RTX site leaders
Site Executive, Site General Manager and Plant Manager are among the current titles held by these RTX site leaders, who run sites and plants for Raytheon and Collins Aerospace. A reader can learn how site leaders run their sites at RTX from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
German Cortez Ojeda
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Collins Aerospace
German Cortez Ojeda has been Plant Manager at Collins Aerospace since June 2022. At Collins Aerospace they were also Quality & MRB Manager (2015–2023), Team Leader / MRB (liaison) Engineer (2013–2015) and MRB (Liason) Engineer (2010–2013). The listing places them in Mexico.
Leszek Polus
LinkedInExperience: General Manager, Kalisz Site · Collins Aerospace
Leszek Polus has been General Manager, Kalisz Site at Collins Aerospace since January 2021. They were Operations Director at Collins Aerospace (2018–2020), and at UTC Aerospace Systems they were Operations Director in 2018 and Business Unit Director (2013–2018). The listing places them in Kalisz, Poland.
Lori Gillette
LinkedInExperience: Executive Director, General Manager and Site Leader · Collins Aerospace
Lori Gillette has been Executive Director, General Manager and Site Leader at Collins Aerospace since March 2023. At Collins Aerospace they were also General Manager (2019–2023) and Plant Manager (2017–2019), and they were General Manager at UTC Aerospace Systems (2013–2017) and at Pratt & Whitney (2002–2013). The listing places them in Melbourne, Florida.
Nichol Savko, P.E.
LinkedInExperience: Former Plant Manager · Collins Aerospace
Nichol Savko is a former Plant Manager at Collins Aerospace, a title held in two rows from March 2021 to August 2022 and from September 2022 to June 2025. Nichol Savko has been Director of Operations at Collins Aerospace since July 2025, and their headline places that role in Troy, Ohio.
Pedrum Farahnak
LinkedInExperience: Site General Manager · Collins Aerospace
Pedrum Farahnak has been Site General Manager at Collins Aerospace since February 2026. At Collins Aerospace they were also Global Director of Operations & Materials - Boeing & Business Jets (2024–2026) and Associate Director of Operations Airbus A320neo (2020–2024). The listing places them in Riverside, California.
Randall (Randy) McIntire
LinkedInExperience: Site Executive for Lawton/Ft. Sill · Raytheon
Randall (Randy) McIntire has been Site Executive for Lawton/Ft. Sill at Raytheon since January 2023. They have also been President of the ADA Association since December 2021 and a Board Member of the Lawton Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce since June 2023. The listing places them in the Lawton Area.
Richard Spotts
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Collins Aerospace
Richard Spotts has been Plant Manager at Collins Aerospace since August 2024. They were Head of Semiconductor Production (2021–2024), Head of Device and Wafer Fab Production (2020–2021) and Head of Device Production (2018–2020) at TRUMPF North America. The listing places them in Greater Philadelphia.
Sam Black
LinkedInExperience: General Manager and Site Executive · RTX
Sam Black has been General Manager and Site Executive at RTX since December 2025, and their profile headline names the Forest, MS Consolidated Manufacturing Center (CMC) of Raytheon - An RTX Business. They were General Manager at GE Aerospace (2021–2024) and Silicon Carbide Fiber Plant Leader in Huntsville, AL at GE Aerospace (2017–2021).
Scott Hansen
LinkedInExperience: Utah Site Executive · RTX
Scott Hansen has been Utah Site Executive at RTX since June 2016 and Director, Advanced Technology Division at RTX since December 2024. At RTX they were also Department Manager (2014–2024) and Chief Engineer (2012–2014). Their profile headline reads Director of Advanced Technology and Utah Site Executive at Raytheon AST.
Victor Hurtado
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Collins Aerospace
Victor Hurtado has been Plant Manager at Collins Aerospace since February 2026 and also lists a current Sr Mgr, Mfg Ops at Collins Aerospace row there since September 2019. They were Sr Operations Team Leader at Collins Aerospace (2018–2019). The listing places them in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico.
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Match the site in each person's title, and the years they ran it, to the question you want answered. Weigh how recently each person took the role, since someone new to a site and someone who has led it for years will describe different challenges.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you took over your site?
- 02How do you split your own time between the site floor and the business you report to?
- 03What from your earlier roles still shapes how you run a site?
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