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Cemetery Services Specialist

Philadelphia, PAOnsiteFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)Posted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • High school degree
  • equivalent
  • operating standard equipment
  • Acceptable driving record
  • operate equipment/vehicles
  • hand-held tools
  • mechanical equipment
  • measuring devices
  • communicate effectively
  • safety and security issues

Nice to have

  • Dignity University courses
  • Dignity Memorial Promise

Role summary

This role involves participating in cemetery services such as interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterment, as well as the installation of memorials and markers. Responsibilities include performing grounds and facilities maintenance, handling work orders for grave and marker upkeep, and ensuring adherence to safety protocols and company standards. The position requires operating various hand-held and mechanical equipment, effective communication, and the ability to work in adverse weather conditions.

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Participates in openings and closings for interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterment as well as the installation of memorials and markers. Performs grounds and facilities maintenance.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Performs openings & 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 as it pertains to individual grave and marker maintenance
  • Responds to and completes requests for service/work orders
  • Conducts Interment Verification Procedures
  • Conducts 25 foot radius preparation for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat
  • Fills grave, tamps, seeds or sods
  • Adheres to all 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 training as assigned
  • Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise
  • Performs all other duties as assigned by management

MINIMUM Requirements


Education

  • High School degree or equivalent

Experience

  • Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment

Licenses

  • Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment/vehicles

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledge hammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw and pump
  • Ability to operate mechanical equipment including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper and backhoe
  • Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yardstick, etc.)
  • Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel and client families Ability to lift heavy objects up to 30 lbs.
  • Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions
  • Understands safety and security issues and implications
  • Mechanical aptitude
Postal Code: 17201Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery MaintenanceJob Location: US-PA - Chambersburg
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