Cemetery Equipment Worker

Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries seeks an Interments department team member to complete interments, entombments, and niche placements. Responsibilities include installing memorial tablets and lot markers, aiding clients, and performing grounds maintenance to support interment functions.

The role involves preparing sites, operating a range of equipment, and coordinating with supervisors. Candidates should be able to lift heavy loads, meet safety standards, and assist families with

Qualifications

• Valid California Driver License.
• Able to push and pull 100 pounds and perform a one handed lift of 100 pounds from floor to waist level from the left and right sides.
• 2-3 years interment or other cemetery experience.
• Prior equipment operating experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform initial preparation of interment spaces by locating them in office map books and measuring space to proper dimension.
• Prepare interment locations for committal services using interment list reports; operate vault-lowering equipment and seal lawn crypts.
• Check interment locations for accuracy and inform supervisor of unsafe acts.
• Ensure equipment is in safe operating order and maintain clean work areas.
• Perform wall crypt entombments and columbarium niche placements.
• Install memorial tablets, flower vases, and cut-out letters as instructed.
• Make repairs to sunken interment locations and assist client families as needed.
• Assist in maintaining inventory of supplies; meet with client families to resolve issues.

Tools

Lowering devices

Tractors

Shovels/hand tools

Job description

Brief Description

Forest Lawn is looking for a great addition to our Interments department. This individual would be responsible for completing a wide variety of tasks associated with performing interments, entombments and niche placements. Will also be assigned to install memorial tablets, flower vases, and lot markers. Will assist clients wherever needs arise and will perform grounds maintenance activities, which support interment functions. This individual may work alone or with a team of co-workers. This person will work under general supervision.

Brief Description

Forest Lawn is looking for a great addition to our Interments department. This individual would be responsible for completing a wide variety of tasks associated with performing interments, entombments and niche placements. Will also be assigned to install memorial tablets, flower vases, and lot markers. Will assist clients wherever needs arise and will perform grounds maintenance activities, which support interment functions. This individual may work alone or with a team of co-workers. This person will work under general supervision.

What You'll Be Doing

• Perform initial preparation of interment spaces by first locating them in office map books and proceeding to location and measuring space to proper dimension.
• Prepare interment locations for committal services using interment list reports provided by supervisor. Activities will include opening and closing space, assembling vault- lowering equipment, placing and lowering vaults and sealing lawn crypts.
• Check interment locations for accuracy prior to completing assigned tasks.
• Immediately informs supervisor of unsafe acts or conditions observed.
• Ensure all equipment is in safe operating order for both employees and clients by inspecting prior to each use.
• Maintain work and storage areas in a clean and orderly condition.
• Perform wall crypt entombments and columbarium niche placements.
• Operate a wide variety of power and hand equipment and tools including, shovels, rakes, brooms, scooters, generators, special utility vehicles, lowering devices, lifting devices, and trucks.
• Frequently operate tractors and tractor-loader-backhoes.
• Assist in placing tents as instructed for weather protection.
• Install flower vases, memorial tablets, and cut-out letters.
• Make minor adjustments to equipment (only with supervisor’s prior approval)
• Will make repairs to sunken interment locations to maintain level lawn appearance.
• Perform other duties as needed or required.
• May meet with client families whenever problems or complaints regarding memorial tablets arise. Quick resolution of complaints is essential to this customer service role.
• Assists in the maintenance of adequate inventory of supplies, tools and materials needed for interment activities by informing supervisor when supplies are low.

Requirements

• Valid California Driver License.
• Able to push and pull 100 pounds and perform a one handed lift of 100 pounds from floor to waist level from the left and right sides.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-3 years interment or other cemetery experience.
• Prior equipment operating experience.

Competitive Benefits

Forest Lawn takes pride in offering an excellent benefits package to our employees, which taken as a whole, leads our industry and is competitive with the benefits in just about any other industry.

Drug Testing Policy

Prior to beginning employment, all job applicants who receive a job offer will be required to voluntarily submit to a drug screening test conducted by a laboratory designated by Forest Lawn. The drug screening method is a hair collection test that will detect the use of illegal drugs within the past 90 days. A positive drug test may result in the withdrawal of the job offer.

E-Verify Statement

Forest Lawn has registered to participate in the federal government's E-Verify program. With E-Verify we are able to confirm the employment authorization of all newly hired employees through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. With respect to new hires, the E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with a new hire’s completion of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification upon commencement of employment. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates.

For up-to-date information on E-Verify, go to https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview.

Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

Forest Lawn will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Summary

Forest Lawn has always attracted unique and exceptional individuals; those who aren’t satisfied with simply building a career, but want to go home at the end of the day knowing they’ve made a profound and positive difference in people’s lives.