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