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