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