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