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