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