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