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