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