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