Cemetery Services Specialist
Service Corporation International•Charlotte, NC
•Onsite
About The Position
The Cemetery Services Specialist participates in openings and closings for interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterments, and installs memorials and markers. The role also performs cemetery grounds and facilities maintenance and responds to work orders from client families concerning grave and marker maintenance.
Requirements
- High school degree or equivalent.
- At least six months of experience operating standard equipment.
- Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment and vehicles.
- Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including a shovel, pick, rake, sledge hammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw, and pump.
- Ability to operate mechanical equipment, including a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailer, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper, and backhoe.
- Ability to use measuring devices accurately, such as a tape measure or yardstick.
- Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel, and client families.
- Ability to lift objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
- Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions.
- Understanding of safety and security issues and implications.
- Mechanical aptitude.
Responsibilities
- Performs openings and closings for burials, entombments, and inurnments.
- Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers.
- Installs outer burial containers.
- Handles and completes client-family work orders concerning individual grave and marker maintenance.
- Responds to and completes requests for service and work orders.
- Conducts Interment Verification Procedures.
- Prepares the 25-foot radius around burial sites and ensures the area is clean and neat.
- Fills graves, tamps the soil, and seeds or installs sod.
- Adheres to Company safety rules and Universal Precautions.
- Maintains and protects Company assets by performing regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and facilities.
- Maintains a clean and orderly work area.
- Completes Dignity University courses and other assigned training.
- Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise.
- Performs other duties as assigned by management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
