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