Cemetery Admin Caretaker

650 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; Ardmore (OK); On-site; USD 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

650 Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a Cemetery Admin Caretaker to perform administrative duties, greet visitors, and handle interment paperwork. The role includes meeting with next-of-kin, overseeing committal services, and data entry for interment records.

The position requires proficiency in English, use of hand and power tools, and safe operation of cemetery machinery. The role combines 80% administrative work with 20% field operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in business administration or related trades.
• Proficiency in English for essential functions.
• Experience with hand and power tools and safe operation of cemetery equipment.

Responsibilities

• Greet visitors, answer phones, respond to requests, and prepare interment paperwork.
• Order headstones and check in headstones; generate interment records.
• Meet with next-of-kin and oversee committal services; perform related duties.

Skills

Administrative tasks

Groundskeeping

Computer Skills

Oral Communication

Writing

Tools

Hand tools

Power tools

Machinery operation

Cemetery equipment

Job description

Job Posting Title

Cemetery Admin Caretaker Agency 650 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Supervisory Organization ODVA - Central Office Job Posting End Date Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

Job Description

Annual Salary: $47,611.00

The Cemetery Admin Caretaker performs administrative functions, to include greeting visitors, answering phones, responding to requests and answering questions, preparing paperwork related to the interment process or preneed, ordering headstones, and checking in headstones. The incumbent must also perform Cemetery Representative functions which include meeting with next-of-kin and overseeing committal services and entering data to generate interment records. In addition, the Cemetery Admin Caretaker performs jobs requiring manual skills and physical strength. Performs a variety of tasks, such as operating small tractors, excavators, digging graves to the proper level; cutting and removing sod, tamping and leveling dirt using hand and power tools; digging and squaring graves using pneumatic equipment, picks and shovels; assisting in lifting and placing caskets on lowering devices; loading and unloading materials; aligning headstones; and cleaning service. Performs other related duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position and agency operations.

Work schedule

May be required to work Monday through Friday to include occasional weekends for events. All staff are required to work on Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day each year. Staff will be required to work overtime, weekends and holidays when necessary to meet the needs of the cemetery. Occasionally staff may be called back to the facility to perform emergency overtime work.

Position Description

Title: Cemetery Admin Caretaker 80% Admin 20% Field Operations

Qualifications

Your background must demonstrate work involved in business administration or equivalent as well as other related trades experience that includes the use of hand tools and/or power tools, and the safe operation of related machinery and equipment used in cemetery caretaking practices, as described in the duties section of the announcement. Candidates must possess sufficient proficiency in the English language to perform the essential functions of the position.

EXPERIENCE

Candidates must demonstrate the potential to perform the duties involved in administrative tasks, software proficiency, groundskeeping, or related trades, including the use of hand tools, power tools, and the safe operation of machinery and equipment used in cemetery caretaking practices. Evidence of this potential can be shown through work, training, or relevant activities that indicate the potential to perform these duties effectively.

JOB ELEMENTS

• Work with minimal supervision
• Technical Practices
• Ability to interpret instructions, specifications, and directives
• Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
• Computer Skills
• Oral Communication
• Writing

Physical Requirements

This position requires heavy physical effort with reaching, bending, turning, and moving hands, arms, feet and legs to operate the different sets of controls while operating the equipment and attachments. The Incumbent may be subjected to considerable strain caused by vibration, jerking, and jolting of the equipment over rough surfaces and the need to operate controls in awkward positions. Heavy effort is frequently exercised when performing duties such as tamping, carrying caskets/urns, lifting/moving grave planks, setting headstones, etc. Incumbent must be able to walk on hilly, flat, or rolling terrain. This position requires the employee to life weights up to 50 lbs. Occasionally items weighing more than 50 lbs are lifted with assistance from co-works. Employee may be exposed to noise levels exceeding 85 dBA for up to eight (8) hours per day. This exposure may adversely affect hearing.

Working Conditions

Work must be performed outdoors, and incumbent will be exposed to all types of weather throughout the year. Incumbent will be exposed to the sun, noise, extreme heat, and humidity, cold, snow, rain, wind, and is subject to dirt, dust, fumes (from motor and exhaust) mud, and water. Work is performed in areas where pesticides, insecticides, and fertilizers are applied. Appropriate protective equipment will be worn. The operator is exposed to injury from mishaps that may be involved in the operation of grounds maintenance equipment.

Special Requirements

• Some positions may require that applicants be willing and able to perform all job-related travel normally associated with the position.
• Some positions may require possession of a valid Oklahoma Commercial driver’s license with appropriate endorsements referred to in the United States Department of Transportation Title 47, Chapter 6, Section 101 et seq. at the time of appointment.
• Some positions may require performing moderately heavy lifting or other manual tasks.
• Some positions may require training or experience in a specific field of construction or maintenance work.
• Some agencies may have determined positions in this job family to be safety sensitive as defined by 63 O.S. § 427.8.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Agency Contact

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