Cemetery Services Specialist
Service Corporation International•Seneca, SC
•Onsite
About The Position
The Cemetery Services Specialist participates in cemetery interment services and memorial installations, and performs grounds and facilities maintenance. The role includes preparing gravesites, completing work orders for client families, maintaining equipment and company facilities, and following company safety standards and the Dignity Memorial Promise.
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 shovels, picks, rakes, sledgehammers, lawn mowers, weed trimmers, leaf blowers, chainsaws, and pumps.
- Ability to operate mechanical equipment, including dump trucks, tractors, utility vehicles, marker trailers, dump trailers, jackhammers, tampers, and backhoes.
- Ability to accurately use measuring devices such as tape measures and yardsticks.
- 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 work orders from client families for individual grave and marker maintenance.
- Responds to and completes requests for service and work orders.
- Conducts Interment Verification Procedures.
- Prepares a 25-foot radius for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat.
- Fills graves, tamps soil, and seeds or lays sod.
- Adheres to company safety rules and Universal Precautions.
- Maintains and protects company assets through 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
