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