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