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