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