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