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