Funeral Director

Denver Roller; Marshall (AR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Denver Roller at 36 Roller Coffman Funeral Home in Marshall, AR seeks a Funeral Home Director to lead all funeral services and related operations. The role includes arranging services, guiding families, and ensuring professional presentation and dignified care.

Responsibilities involve coordinating logistics, counseling families, assisting with prearranged funerals, and overseeing clerical tasks. State registration and a valid driver’s license are required.

Qualifications

• Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills in dealing with grieving families.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret procedures and regulations.
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to present information clearly to managers, customers, and the public.

Responsibilities

• Directs and oversees all aspects of a funeral and attendant services.
• Schedule and direct funeral arrangements (flowers, pallbearers, minister, cars, music).
• Counsel families and assist with merchandise and obituary needs.
• Assist with prearranged funeral sales and liaise with sales force.
• Handle clerical and record-keeping tasks; transport bodies.
• Aids in dressing the body and applying cosmetics for viewing.
• Transport deceased to out-of-state locations when required.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: 36 Roller Coffman Funeral Home - Marshall, AR 72650
Position Type: Full Time

Position Summary

Directs, leads, and oversees all aspects of a funeral and its attendant services in a manner deemed to fit the Roller image of excellent service. Picks up and transports bodies. Appropriately aids in dressing and preparing deceased to be viewed by the family.

Essential Functions

• Schedules, organizes and directs all aspects of a funeral including: flowers, pallbearers, minister, order of service, cars, music, etc.
• Counseling families including merchandise, obituary and assisting them to deal with their grief. Follows the arrangement office training procedures.
• Assists with the sale of prearranged funerals including answering questions and liaising with the sales force.
• Carrying out clerical and record keeping tasks related to all aspects of the funeral.
• Picks up and transports bodies.
• Aids in dressing the body and using cosmetics to achieve the desired appearance for viewing.
• Transports deceased to out of state locations when needed.

Other Responsibilities

• Assists in keeping the funeral home ready to receive families and the public.
• Orders merchandise as needed.
• Coordinates the needed services of cemeteries and grave openers.
• Greets the public.
• Be active in community functions and activities, speak to organizations, etc.
• To look and act as a professional.
• Assist Management in other areas of the operations when deemed necessary.

Supervisory Responsibility

Responsible for direction and coordination of the work of part-time employees when necessary.

Qualification Requirements

Education or Experience: High school diploma plus additional training.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write reports and business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the manager, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where only limited standardization may exist. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Other Skill and Abilities: In-depth knowledge of all aspects of the funeral service, including embalming and cosmetology. Basic knowledge of general office procedures and operation of appropriate equipment. Ability to organize and prioritize work.

Other Requirements: Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills; compassionate understanding and ability to deal with all aspects of grief. State registration and certification as a funeral home director. Valid driver’s license.

Physical Demands

Occasional very heavy work requiring exertion of more than three hundred (300) pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Employee uses hands to grasp, finger, handle, or feel objects, tool or controls. The employee reaches with arms and hands, and is frequently required to walk, stand, bend, or stoop, and is occasionally required to kneel, climb, balance, crouch, or crawl. Ability to clearly express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word, and to receive detailed information through verbal communications, with or without correction.

Clarity of vision at distances of 20 inches or less, more than 20 inches and less than 20 feet, and more than 20 feet, with or without correction; color vision, depth perception, and peripheral vision.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Moderately undesirable conditions due to frequent exposure to one or more disagreeable elements, such as dirt, dust, temperature extremes, weather fluctuations, equipment movement hazards, toxic or caustic chemicals, biological hazards.