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