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