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