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