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Job Description
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 39-4011.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 42,260.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 20.00
- Currently, there are 3,710 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Embalmers”.
Also Known As…
- Embalmers
- Preparation Room Manager
- Licensed Embalmer
- Funeral Service Licensee
- Funeral Director/Embalmer
- Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Embalmer
- Chief Embalmer
- Associate Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Assistant Manager/Embalmer
- Apprentice Embalmer
- Trade Embalmer
- Supervisor and Licensed Embalmer and Crematory Operator
- Restorative Art Embalmer
- Prep Room Supervisor
- Manager, Embalmer, Funeral Director
- Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer
- Licensed Embalmer Supervisor
- Funeral Service Practitioner/Embalmer
- Funeral Director/Embalmer/Owner
- Embalmer/Funeral Director Care Center Manager
- Embalmer Apprentice
- Arterial Embalmer
- Anatomical Embalmer
Tasks for “Assistant Manager/Embalmer”
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
- Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
Related Technology & Tools
- Femoral drain tubes
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Air brushes
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Personal computers
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Carotid tubes
- Infant arterial tubes
- Adult trocars
- Tinting brushes
- Surgical razors
- Spring forceps
- Injector needle guns
- Stippling brushes
- Aneurysm needles
- Safety goggles
- Iris scissors
- Eye suture scissors
- Laptop computers
- Body positioners
- Embalming machines
- Arm and hand positioners
- Protective medical gloves
- Straight arterial tubes
- Mortuary lifts
- Thumb forceps
- Stryker saws
- Head blocks
- Tube occluding forceps
- Lower body positioners
- Safety coveralls
- Straight surgical scissors
- Cosmetic brushes
- Blending brushes
- Highlighting brushes
- Lining brushes
- Paint sprayers
- Steam autoclaves
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Angular forceps
- Jugular drain tubes
- Fixation forceps
- Curved suture needles
- Protective medical face masks
- Mayo scissors
- Iliac drain tubes
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Ring cutters
- Trocar sterilizers
- Protective hoods
- Calvarium clamps
- Embalming injector needles
- Barber scissors
- Hypodermic needles
- Hairpin injectors
- Gravity injectors
- Suture needle holders
- Lister bandage scissors
- Extremity positioners
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Head rests
- Surgical scalpels
- Bistoury knives
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Cuticle scissors
- Axillary drain tubes
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Casket lifters
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Protective shoe covers
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Embalming syringes
- Desktop computers
- Powder dusting brushes
- Curved arterial tubes
- Infant trocars
- Body bags
- Web browser software
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Microsoft Office
- HMIS Advantage
- Microsoft Excel
- Corel WordPerfect
- Belmar & Associates Mortware
- FPA Software MACCS
- Microsoft Word