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