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