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