Regional Operations Coordinator

Location: Hayfield

The Force That Keeps It Moving

We're looking for someone who thrives on making the moving parts move and who cares about why they're moving.

Return is scaling fast. We're expanding into new regions across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa, onboarding new farmers every month, and building the operational infrastructure to support it all. Growth like this means our operations team needs more horsepower and this role is how we get it.

This role is the force multiplier. The Regional Operations Coordinator serves as the central coordination point for trucking logistics and farmer data collection across all of Return's operating regions. You'll coordinate trucking logistics across Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, own the farmer onboarding data pipeline, and make sure the information that drives our operations is accurate, complete, and where it needs to be before anyone has to ask for it.

This role has two primary pillars:

Trucking Dispatch & Logistics:
You'll coordinate the daily movement of product across Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, scheduling loads, communicating with internal drivers and third-party haulers, and keeping our operations systems updated in real time.

Farmer Onboarding & Compliance Data Collection:
When a sales rep identifies a committed lead, you take the handoff. You'll collect the agronomic and regulatory data needed to serve that farmer crop history, fertility plans, FSA maps, and state-specific permitting information and make sure it flows to the right systems and the right people.

If you're organized to a fault, tech-savvy, relentless about follow-through, and energized by the idea of helping build something meaningful in agriculture, we want to talk.
ABOUT RETURN

Return is a leader in Good-for-the-Earth Growing Supplies that cares deeply about our people, planet, and soil. We provide a viable alternative to synthetic growing products that encourage soil regeneration to help grow healthier food, people, and the planet.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Trucking Dispatch & Logistics

• Schedule and coordinate daily trucking operations across Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, including internal fleet and third-party haulers.
• Serve as the primary dispatch contact for drivers communicating load assignments, destinations, product types, tonnages, and special instructions.
• Maintain real-time load tracking and status updates in  and Samsara.
• Coordinate with third-party trucking operators (onboarding to Samsara, managing SMS-based confirmation systems, verifying delivery data).
• Monitor load progress throughout the day and flag issues; truck breakdowns, schedule changes, tonnage discrepancies to the Director of Operations immediately.
• Track running tonnage totals per job and alert the team when target tonnage is reached so trucks can be redirected.
• Help plan efficient routes based on geographic clustering, cleanout schedules, and equipment availability.
• Maintain accurate records in the Operations Queue board for every load dispatched, delivered, and completed.

Farmer Onboarding & Data Collection

• Receive handoffs from sales reps when a farmer is identified as a committed lead.
• Contact farmers to collect critical onboarding data: previous crop year's fertilizer program and crop, upcoming season's planned crop and fertility program, and any additional agronomic or regulatory information required by region.
• Collect FSA maps from farmers and route them appropriately to suppliers in Iowa, into Field View or Return's proprietary mapping software in Minnesota, and into permit packages in Wisconsin.
• Own the Wisconsin stockpiling permit data pipeline: gather all location-specific information required for each stockpiling site, ensure permit packages are complete and submitted on time.
• Maintain organized, accurate records of all farmer onboarding data in Return's systems (, Google Drive, or internal tools as applicable).
• Follow up persistently with farmers and internal team members to close out incomplete data requests; nothing falls through the cracks.

Compliance & Reporting Support

• Assist in assembling MPCA Transfer of Ownership and Attachment B report data-pulling Township, Section, and Quarter Section information,…