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