Rick Debord

From heavy industrial mines at the end of the earth to the top of Seattle’s growing skyline, Rick Debord has seen it all. After spending two decades in the mining industry working in locales such as Panama and the Arctic Circle, he decided it was time to find a new, safer role. As an operator with Sellen since 2009, Debord runs the elevator lifts on high-rise projects with a deft touch. The lift is the nerve center of the job site, so on any given day he interacts with a wide variety of workers, opening and closing the door of the lift more than 750 times per day. Eminently approachable and quick to laugh, Debord does what he can to promote an air of positivity on the job site.