About Us

Wyatt Gehringer began working at Freedom Fabrication in August of 2022. He was born and raised in Helena Montana and graduated from Capital High School in 2013. After high school he attended Montana State University for one year before deciding that joining the work force was going to be the best option for himself. In the Spring of 2017, Wyatt began working for Steed Industries out of Helena, MT as a labor hand, learning and expanding his knowledge and passion for the concrete industry while, ultimately, working his way to a Lead Foreman position until leaving in June of 2021.

Joining Freedom Fabrication and bringing his knowledge and expertise to the company has been a true blessing for Wyatt. He loves working with the team every day and watching his concrete crews excel in all aspects of their lives. Wyatt took over the concrete project manager position in March of 2022 with the opportunity to grow and learn everyday as well as continuing to build an amazing team to better serve Helena and the surrounding areas with all their concrete dreams and ideas. The concrete industry never stops changing, making it that much more challenging and rewarding which keeps him loving his job.

Russell Eastep has worked for Freedom Fabrication’s excavation division since January 2021. Russell came to Freedom with years of experience and showed leadership qualities from the beginning. His family owns and operates a construction company in Kalispell, MT and he has been operating equipment since he was twelve years old. Towards the end of 2021, Russell became the excavation project manager at Freedom. He says he loves his job and is passionate about it because if you do not like what you do the what’s the point in doing it. “The smile on the customers face when you are done with a project is priceless! Thank you for trusting us with all your construction needs and letting us be apart of your dreams.”

Calvin Alexander is the landscaping project manager for Freedom Fabrication. Born and raised in upstate New York, he worked as a CNC machinist for 5 years before moving to Montana in December of 2020 where he continued working as a machinist for another 2 years. Calvin started working with Freedom Fabrication in July of 2022 in the landscaping division and took over as the landscaping project manager in January of 2023. When he’s not hard at work with his landscaping crew, Calvin can be found hunting, fishing, or just enjoying the outdoors in general.

Trey Griffith is Freedom Fabrication’s Chief Construction Estimator. He was born in Birmingham, AL and moved to Kalispell, MT when he was five years old. After graduating from high school, he moved to Bozeman, MT to go to school at Montana State University where he majored in Civil Engineering and minored in Geotechnical Engineering. Him and his wife, Josie Lea, were married in Bozeman in August of 2017 and they moved to Helena in the spring of 2018. Since then, he has worked in the heavy civil construction industry with Morrison Maierle and Helena Sand & Gravel before starting at Freedom Fabrication. Trey also loves basketball, competition, and being outside.

Bettijo Starr was born and raised in the Helena area and graduated from Helena High School. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She grew up on the back of horse and agrees with the saying “There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man”. She has milked cows, moved herds of cattle, raised chickens, pigs and sheep. She’s also hunted deer, antelope, and elk and even shot her fair share. She is a Montana ranch girl through and through.

Bettijo has been working with accounts receivable and accounts payable since high school when she first took care of the books for her father’s auto repair shop at the age of 15. Further into her working career, she was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in the Audit Department. She also worked for IBM where she was responsible for payroll, parts accounting, and inventory for the Field Engineering Department of Montana. More recently she has has a successful career in the real estate industry. She was the Assistant Vice President for Olympic Savings Bank where she supervised the real estate lending department and processing/completing real estate loan closings and fundings for the bank covering the west Washington market. She was also responsible for the preparation and filing of legal documents with the county, balancing the financial portion of the closings, fund the loan closings, and, finally, shipping loan files to investors. Bettijo also worked Mann mortgage off and on since October 2002 and more recently worked for Dirty Treasures Sewer & Septic in Missoula, MT as an office manager/administrator. At Dirty Treasures, Bettijo was responsible for accounts receivable and payable, payroll, tax reporting, dispatch, and licensing all vehicles. One of Bettijo’s greatest achievements has been teaching seminars for several years on various banking subjects around Montana for the Montana Banking Association.

Bettijo is excited to join Freedom Fabrication and looks forward to growing with us and doing her part for our great group of people.