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