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