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