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