Cemetery Services Specialist

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

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 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 of 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, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chainsaw, and pump
• Ability to operate mechanical equipment, including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jackhammer, 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 to 30 lbs.
• Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions
• Understands safety and security issues and implications
• Mechanical aptitude