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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
- Director
- Certified Mortician
Tasks for “Embalmer”
- Perform embalming duties as necessary.
- Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.
- Arrange for pallbearers or inform pallbearers or honorary groups of their duties.
- Provide or arrange transportation between sites for the remains, mourners, pallbearers, clergy, or flowers.
- Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites.
- Clean funeral home facilities and grounds.
- Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.
- Provide information on funeral service options, products, or merchandise and maintain a casket display area.
- Contact cemeteries to schedule the opening and closing of graves.
- Inform survivors of benefits for which they may be eligible.
- Direct preparations and shipment of bodies for out-of-state burial.
- Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.
- Participate in community activities for funeral home promotion or other purposes.
- Obtain information needed to complete legal documents, such as death certificates or burial permits.
- Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients.
- Plan placement of caskets at funeral sites or place or adjust lights, fixtures, or floral displays.
- Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.
- Receive or usher people to their seats for services.
- 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.
- Plan, schedule, or coordinate funerals, burials, or cremations, arranging details such as floral delivery or the time and place of services.
Related Technology & Tools
- Protective medical face masks
- Bistoury knives
- Blending brushes
- Air brushes
- Surgical scalpels
- Safety coveralls
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Body positioners
- Cosmetic brushes
- Jugular drain tubes
- Mortuary lifts
- Spring forceps
- Stryker saws
- Mayo scissors
- Laptop computers
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Aneurysm needles
- Arm and hand positioners
- Fixation forceps
- Barber scissors
- Desktop computers
- Body bags
- Paint sprayers
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Infant arterial tubes
- Straight surgical scissors
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Protective medical gloves
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Protective hoods
- Casket lifters
- Curved suture needles
- Surgical razors
- Angular forceps
- Highlighting brushes
- Cuticle scissors
- Safety goggles
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Lining brushes
- Lower body positioners
- Iris scissors
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Lister bandage scissors
- Suture needle holders
- Hairpin injectors
- Gravity injectors
- Straight arterial tubes
- Iliac drain tubes
- Ring cutters
- Stippling brushes
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Personal computers
- Embalming injector needles
- Powder dusting brushes
- Hypodermic needles
- Curved arterial tubes
- Axillary drain tubes
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Carotid tubes
- Protective shoe covers
- Adult trocars
- Femoral drain tubes
- Eye suture scissors
- Steam autoclaves
- Embalming syringes
- Trocar sterilizers
- Tinting brushes
- Head blocks
- Head rests
- Thumb forceps
- Tube occluding forceps
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Embalming machines
- Extremity positioners
- Infant trocars
- Calvarium clamps
- FPA Software MACCS
- Microsoft Office
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- FuneralKiosk
- Microsoft Word
- HMIS Advantage
- Corel WordPerfect
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Belmar & Associates Mortware