Cemetery Services Specialist (part-time)
Required skills
- Cemetery Maintenance
- Equipment Operation
- Grounds Maintenance
- Memorial Installation
- Safety Compliance
- Customer Communication
- Mechanical Aptitude
- Physical Stamina
- Measuring Devices
- High School degree
Nice to have
- Dignity University courses
- Dignity Memorial Promise
Role summary
This part-time Cemetery Services Specialist role involves participating in interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterments, as well as installing memorials and performing grounds and facilities maintenance. Responsibilities include handling work orders for grave and marker maintenance, conducting interment verification, preparing burial sites, and performing preventive maintenance on equipment and facilities. The role requires operating various hand-held and mechanical equipment, using measuring devices, communicating effectively with families and contractors, and adhering to safety protocols. A high school degree and a minimum of six months of experience operating standard equipment are required.
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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
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