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