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