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