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