Interment Services Specialist

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Entry-level role maintaining grounds care at a cemetery or funeral home location(s). Performs basic tasks associated with setting up funeral services, helping to open/close burials, install memorials, and perform maintenance duties. Incumbent gains an understanding of how a cemetery operates.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

- Participates in teams for openings and closings for interments, entombments and inurnments

- Assists in determining the location and layout of individual graves with assistance, complying with verification procedures

- May perform minor repairs to the cemetery, building systems or equipment

- May perform some of the duties associated with cremations such as maintaining inventory and complying with federal and state cremation regulations under supervision

- May assist in moving and installing burial vaults

- Mows grass, plows snow, waters lawns, fertilizes and trims shrubs, tends flower beds and regularly inspects assigned work areas to ensure proper standards are maintained

- Operates lawn and grounds equipment including push and power mowers, snow blowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and other related power equipment

- Removes debris and trash from grounds. May include turning down vases and removing wilted flowers

- Must follow safety rules and ensure compliance with the operating procedures of corporate, federal, state and local regulations, including OSHA regulations and Safety and Environmental guidelines

- This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the essential functions or duties related to this job

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education

- High school diploma or equivalent required

Certification/License

Experience

- Minimum (6) months relevant experience in landscaping, general construction, warehouse, physical labor demonstrating steady employment

- Funeral industry experience preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer and leaf blower

- Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yard-stick, etc.)

- Ability to work in extreme weather conditions

- Physically agile and dexterous

- Ability to operate equipment in a safe and careful manner

- Ability to effectively work with others to accomplish tasks

- Ability to communicate effectively with associates, contractor personnel and client families

- Basic computer skills to enable retrieving and responding to email communications

WORK CONDITIONS

Work Environment

- Work outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions

- Comply with Field dress code policy

Work Postures

- Frequent, continuous periods of time standing, up 6 hours per day

- Climbing stairs to access buildings frequently

Physical Demands

- Lifting, pushing, pulling up to 50 pounds

Work Hours

- Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises

- Schedule may fluctuate, if a need arises, to an earlier or a later shift

Postal Code: 78596

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-TX - Weslaco