Cemetery Services Specialist

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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.

• 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: 72002

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-AR - Alexander