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Job Description
Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 39-4011.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 42,260.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 20.00
- Currently, there are 3,710 people on this job
Also Known As…
- Preparation Room Manager
- Licensed Embalmer
- Funeral Service Licensee
- Funeral Director/Embalmer
- Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Embalmer
- Chief Embalmer
- Associate Embalmer/Funeral Director
- Assistant Manager/Embalmer
- Apprentice Embalmer
- Trade Embalmer
- Supervisor and Licensed Embalmer and Crematory Operator
- Restorative Art Embalmer
- Prep Room Supervisor
- Manager, Embalmer, Funeral Director
- Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer
- Licensed Embalmer Supervisor
- Funeral Service Practitioner/Embalmer
- Funeral Director/Embalmer/Owner
- Embalmer/Funeral Director Care Center Manager
- Embalmer Apprentice
- Arterial Embalmer
- Anatomical Embalmer
Tasks for “Embalmers”
- Insert convex celluloid or cotton between eyeballs and eyelids to prevent slipping and sinking of eyelids.
- Conform to laws of health and sanitation and ensure that legal requirements concerning embalming are met.
- Attach trocar to pump-tube, start pump, and repeat probing to force embalming fluid into organs.
- Perform the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
- Dress bodies and place them in caskets.
- Join lips, using needles and thread or wire.
- Close incisions, using needles and sutures.
- Remove the deceased from place of death and transport to funeral home.
- Arrange funeral home equipment and perform general maintenance.
- Reshape or reconstruct disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
- Serve as pallbearers, attend visiting rooms, and provide other assistance to the bereaved.
- Supervise funeral attendants and other funeral home staff.
- Press diaphragm to evacuate air from lungs.
- Assist coroners at death scenes or at autopsies, file police reports, and testify at inquests or in court, if employed by a coroner.
- Arrange for transporting the deceased to another state for interment.
- Perform special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
- Incise stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
- Assist with placing caskets in hearses and organize cemetery processions.
- Conduct interviews to arrange for the preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.
- Make incisions in arms or thighs and drain blood from circulatory system and replace it with embalming fluid, using pump.
- Apply cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
- Pack body orifices with cotton saturated with embalming fluid to prevent escape of gases or waste matter.
- Maintain records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.
- Direct casket and floral display placement and arrange guest seating.
- Wash and dry bodies, using germicidal soap and towels or hot air dryers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Curved Kelly forceps
- Angular forceps
- Infant arterial tubes
- Body bags
- Body positioners
- Embalming fluid pumps
- Gravity injectors
- Straight Kelly forceps
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Embalming syringes
- Mortuary lifts
- Refrigerated body storage cabinets
- Femoral drain tubes
- Hydraulic body lifts
- Cosmetic brushes
- Barber scissors
- Highlighting brushes
- Protective medical face masks
- Non-clogging post aspirators
- Embalming machines
- Stryker saws
- Surgical scalpels
- Straight surgical scissors
- Tinting brushes
- Carotid tubes
- Embalming bulb syringes
- Calvarium clamps
- Air brushes
- Suture needle holders
- Iliac drain tubes
- Lower body positioners
- Embalming injector needles
- Injector needle guns
- Personal computers
- Mayo scissors
- Thumb forceps
- Head blocks
- Fixation forceps
- Blending brushes
- Nasal tube aspirators
- Aneurysm needles
- Safety coveralls
- Safety goggles
- Protective shoe covers
- Axillary drain tubes
- Lining brushes
- Infant trocars
- Electric mortuary aspirators
- Arm and hand positioners
- Straight arterial tubes
- Stippling brushes
- Surgical razors
- Iris scissors
- Embalming vein drainage tubing
- Casket lifters
- Centrifugal force pumps
- Curved arterial tubes
- Extremity positioners
- Powder dusting brushes
- Desktop computers
- Hypodermic needles
- Cuticle scissors
- Protective medical gloves
- Curved suture needles
- Jugular drain tubes
- Paint sprayers
- Trocar sterilizers
- Spring forceps
- Head rests
- Steam autoclaves
- Hydro-electric aspirators
- Protective hoods
- Lister bandage scissors
- Eye suture scissors
- Bistoury knives
- Ring cutters
- Adult trocars
- Laptop computers
- Hairpin injectors
- Tube occluding forceps
- Custom Data Systems Sterling Management Software
- Twin Tier Technologies MIMS
- Belmar & Associates Mortware
- HMIS Advantage
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Word
- Corel WordPerfect
- FPA Software MACCS
- Microsoft Office