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