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