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