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Job Description
Perform various tasks to arrange and direct funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 39-4031.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 54,700.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 26.00
- Currently, there are 25,850 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors”.
Also Known As…
- Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Directors
- Operations Manager
- Mortician
- Licensed Funeral Director
- Funeral Pre-Need Consultant
- Funeral Location Manager
- Funeral Director / Embalmer
- Funeral Director
- Funeral Counselor
- Funeral Arranger
- Funeral Arrangement Director
- Undertaker
- Location Manager
- Licensed Mortician
- Licensed Embalmer
- Hospital Mortician
- Funeral Prearrangement Counselor
- Funeral Pre-arrangement Specialist
- Funeral Pre-arrangement Counselor
- Funeral Planning Counselor
- Funeral Planner
- Funeral Home Manager
- Funeral Director and Mortician
- Funeral Director and Embalmer
- Embalmer
- Director
Tasks for “Certified Mortician”
- Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients.
- Receive or usher people to their seats for services.
- Perform embalming duties as necessary.
- Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.
- Direct preparations and shipment of bodies for out-of-state burial.
- Manage funeral home operations, including the hiring, training, or supervision of embalmers, funeral attendants, or other staff.
- Arrange for clergy members to perform needed services.
- Arrange for pallbearers or inform pallbearers or honorary groups of their duties.
- Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.
- Contact cemeteries to schedule the opening and closing of graves.
- Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible.
- Clean funeral home facilities and grounds.
- Provide information on funeral service options, products, or merchandise and maintain a casket display area.
- Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.
- Plan placement of caskets at funeral sites or place or adjust lights, fixtures, or floral displays.
- Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites.
- Plan, schedule, or coordinate funerals, burials, or cremations, arranging details such as floral delivery or the time and place of services.
- Obtain information needed to complete legal documents, such as death certificates or burial permits.
- Provide or arrange transportation between sites for the remains, mourners, pallbearers, clergy, or flowers.
- Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.
- Participate in community activities for funeral home promotion or other purposes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Lower body positioners
- Hypodermic needles
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Eye suture scissors
- Stryker saws
- Jugular drain tubes
- Body bags
- Surgical scalpels
- Infant trocars
- Body positioners
- Protective medical gloves
- Lister bandage scissors
- Fixation forceps
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Femoral drain tubes
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Iris scissors
- Stippling brushes
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Embalming machines
- Carotid tubes
- Gravity injectors
- Straight surgical scissors
- Thumb forceps
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Protective shoe covers
- Desktop computers
- Lining brushes
- Cosmetic brushes
- Barber scissors
- Safety coveralls
- Casket lifters
- Infant arterial tubes
- Embalming injector needles
- Steam autoclaves
- Highlighting brushes
- Hairpin injectors
- Blending brushes
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Arm and hand positioners
- Powder dusting brushes
- Head blocks
- Air brushes
- Surgical razors
- Suture needle holders
- Paint sprayers
- Straight arterial tubes
- Tube occluding forceps
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Extremity positioners
- Personal computers
- Adult trocars
- Curved suture needles
- Axillary drain tubes
- Safety goggles
- Ring cutters
- Angular forceps
- Mortuary lifts
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Protective hoods
- Bistoury knives
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Iliac drain tubes
- Aneurysm needles
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Curved arterial tubes
- Spring forceps
- Cuticle scissors
- Protective medical face masks
- Calvarium clamps
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Head rests
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Trocar sterilizers
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Mayo scissors
- Tinting brushes
- Embalming syringes
- Laptop computers
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- Microsoft Word
- Corel WordPerfect
- FuneralKiosk
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel
- FPA Software MACCS
- HMIS Advantage
- Belmar & Associates Mortware
- Microsoft Office