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