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