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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
- 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
- Funeral Arrangement Director
- Embalmer
- Director
- Certified Mortician
Tasks for “Funeral Arrangement Director”
- Plan, schedule, or coordinate funerals, burials, or cremations, arranging details such as floral delivery or the time and place of services.
- 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.
- Provide information on funeral service options, products, or merchandise and maintain a casket display area.
- Offer counsel and comfort to bereaved families or friends.
- Perform embalming duties as necessary.
- Arrange for clergy members to perform needed services.
- Close caskets and lead funeral corteges to churches or burial sites.
- 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.
- Consult with families or friends of the deceased to arrange funeral details, such as obituary notice wording, casket selection, or plans for services.
- 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.
- Maintain financial records, order merchandise, or prepare accounts.
- Oversee the preparation and care of the remains of people who have died.
- Manage funeral home operations, including the hiring, training, or supervision of embalmers, funeral attendants, or other staff.
- Plan placement of caskets at funeral sites or place or adjust lights, fixtures, or floral displays.
- Discuss and negotiate prearranged funerals with clients.
Related Technology & Tools
- Lower body positioners
- Head blocks
- Protective medical face masks
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Infant arterial tubes
- Protective medical gloves
- Gravity injectors
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Laptop computers
- Highlighting brushes
- Body bags
- Carotid tubes
- Mortuary lifts
- Extremity positioners
- Safety goggles
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Hypodermic needles
- Jugular drain tubes
- Casket lifters
- Straight arterial tubes
- Body positioners
- Lining brushes
- Spring forceps
- Hairpin injectors
- Embalming syringes
- Stryker saws
- Ring cutters
- Embalming injector needles
- Surgical scalpels
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Infant trocars
- Tube occluding forceps
- Barber scissors
- Curved suture needles
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Tinting brushes
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Trocar sterilizers
- Axillary drain tubes
- Stippling brushes
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Protective hoods
- Powder dusting brushes
- Aneurysm needles
- Angular forceps
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Paint sprayers
- Eye suture scissors
- Desktop computers
- Curved arterial tubes
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Thumb forceps
- Femoral drain tubes
- Iris scissors
- Surgical razors
- Safety coveralls
- Calvarium clamps
- Cuticle scissors
- Iliac drain tubes
- Mayo scissors
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Personal computers
- Adult trocars
- Suture needle holders
- Arm and hand positioners
- Protective shoe covers
- Air brushes
- Cosmetic brushes
- Steam autoclaves
- Embalming machines
- Lister bandage scissors
- Straight surgical scissors
- Bistoury knives
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Blending brushes
- Fixation forceps
- Head rests
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Microsoft Word
- FPA Software MACCS
- HMIS Advantage
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- Belmar & Associates Mortware
- FuneralKiosk
- Microsoft Office
- Corel WordPerfect