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