Part Time Funeral Assistant

DENVER ROLLER INC • West Memphis, AR

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Under the supervision of a licensed funeral director, this role assists with all aspects of a funeral and serves as an attendant at services, maintaining the Roller image of excellent service. The position involves assisting with funeral services in chapels and off-site locations, including carrying and moving equipment, caskets, and floral arrangements. It also includes assisting with first calls and removals at the locations where death occurs. The role requires availability to be on-call as scheduled with an adequate response time and driving various vehicles such as a family limo, coach, first call van, and flower van. Additionally, the assistant may be required to work in more than one location and assist with greeting customers and guests not related to a family being served. Other responsibilities include maintaining the neatness and cleanliness of the funeral home and equipment, attending scheduled staff meetings, and performing other duties as assigned by the funeral director in charge and funeral home manager.

Requirements

• High school diploma plus additional training as provided by the funeral home and Denver Roller Incorporated.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the manager, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization may exist.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.
• Need to have the ability to follow directives and to have an overall positive attitude toward others.
• Good verbal and interpersonal skills; compassionate understanding and ability to deal with those that are grieving.
• Valid drivers license.
• Occasional very heavy work requiring exertion of more than one hundred (100) pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Employee uses hands to grasp, finger, handle, or feel objects, tool or controls.
• The employee reaches with arms and hands, and is frequently required to walk, stand, bend, or stoop, and is occasionally required to kneel, climb, balance, crouch, or crawl.
• Ability to clearly express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word, and to receive detailed information through verbal communications, with or without correction.
• Clarity of vision at distances of 20 inches or less, more than 20 inches and less than 20 feet, and more than 20 feet, with or without correction; color vision, depth perception, and peripheral vision.

Responsibilities

• Assists with funeral services in chapel and off-site locations (carrying and moving equipment, casket and floral arrangements).
• Assists with first calls and removals at the locations where death occurs.
• Availability to be on-call as scheduled within an adequate response time.
• Drive vehicles as needed (family limo, coach, 1st call van, flower van, etc).
• Available to work in more than one location.
• Assist with the greeting of customers and guests unrelated to a family being served.
• Assist in keeping the funeral home and equipment neat and clean.
• Attends scheduled staff meetings.
• Other duties deemed necessary by funeral director in charge and funeral home manager.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED