Cemetery Operations Lead

Northstar Memorial Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthStar Memorial Group seeks a Superintendent for San Jacinto Funeral Home & Memorial Park in Houston, TX. The role ensures a beautiful, safe, and dignified environment for families, leading cemetery operations with professionalism, accuracy, and respect.

Responsibilities include maintaining memorials, verifying interment locations, and operating heavy equipment to place burial vaults, while guiding the grounds crew and collaborating with the funeral home team.

Qualifications

• Experience operating large machinery; backhoe experience required.
• Ability to move, install, and set burial vaults safely and accurately.
• Ability to interpret cemetery maps, grave layouts, and plot documentation.
• Ability to lead grounds staff in caretaking and maintenance responsibilities.
• Work cooperatively with funeral home and cemetery team members.

Responsibilities

• Maintain memorials, markers, and crypts to ensure a well-kept and respectful environment.
• Verify all interment, entombment, and inurnment locations using cemetery maps and layout documentation.
• Perform grave opening and closing with precision, safety, and reverence.
• Install markers and memorials according to specifications and cemetery standards.
• Operate large mechanical equipment, including backhoes, for burial vault placement and grounds tasks.
• Ensure grounds crew uniforms, appearance, and conduct reflect professionalism and respect toward client families.
• Maintain inventories, clean facilities, and conduct daily policing of the grounds to remove debris, trash, limbs, and other items that detract from a dignified setting.
• Support any role required within groundskeeping or facilities maintenance.

Skills

Backhoe operation

Cemetery map interpretation

Leadership of grounds crew

Safety compliance

Team collaboration

Job description

NorthStar Memorial Group seeks a Superintendent for San Jacinto Funeral Home & Memorial Park in Houston, TX. The role ensures a beautiful, safe, and dignified environment for families, leading cemetery operations with professionalism, accuracy, and respect.

Responsibilities include maintaining memorials, verifying interment locations, and operating heavy equipment to place burial vaults, while guiding the grounds crew and collaborating with the funeral home team.