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