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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
- Funeral Service Practitioner/Embalmer
- Funeral Director/Embalmer/Owner
- Embalmer/Funeral Director Care Center Manager
- Embalmer Apprentice
- Arterial Embalmer
- Anatomical Embalmer
Tasks for “Licensed Embalmer Supervisor”
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
- Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- 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
- Angular forceps
- Straight surgical scissors
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Cosmetic brushes
- Protective hoods
- Mayo scissors
- Stryker saws
- Blending brushes
- Surgical scalpels
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Aneurysm needles
- Body bags
- Mortuary lifts
- Embalming injector needles
- Straight arterial tubes
- Personal computers
- Embalming machines
- Safety goggles
- Femoral drain tubes
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Curved suture needles
- Curved arterial tubes
- Thumb forceps
- Calvarium clamps
- Paint sprayers
- Lining brushes
- Stippling brushes
- Trocar sterilizers
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Jugular drain tubes
- Tube occluding forceps
- Embalming syringes
- Surgical razors
- Suture needle holders
- Axillary drain tubes
- Tinting brushes
- Carotid tubes
- Protective shoe covers
- Protective medical face masks
- Barber scissors
- Spring forceps
- Gravity injectors
- Hairpin injectors
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Lower body positioners
- Ring cutters
- Bistoury knives
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Cuticle scissors
- Powder dusting brushes
- Lister bandage scissors
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Casket lifters
- Fixation forceps
- Infant arterial tubes
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Infant trocars
- Iris scissors
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Hypodermic needles
- Laptop computers
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Eye suture scissors
- Highlighting brushes
- Adult trocars
- Protective medical gloves
- Arm and hand positioners
- Head blocks
- Air brushes
- Injector needle guns
- Extremity positioners
- Iliac drain tubes
- Desktop computers
- Steam autoclaves
- Head rests
- Safety coveralls
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Body positioners
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- Web browser software
- Corel WordPerfect
- Microsoft Office
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