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