Interment Services Specialist II

sci; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

sci in Houston, Texas seeks an experienced Grounds Specialist to maintain cemetery grounds and support interment operations. You will perform outdoor tasks, operate lawn equipment, and ensure safety and accuracy in burial procedures.

Ideal candidates have at least 1 year in landscaping or related fields, knowledge of safety standards, and the ability to work in variable weather. The role requires physical labor and teamwork on often complex site tasks.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum 1 year relevant experience in landscaping, general construction, warehouse, physical labor demonstrating steady employment required.
• Funeral industry experience preferred.
• Expert Grounds Specialist must be able to demonstrate all proficiencies of a Grounds Specialist.

Responsibilities

• Determines if location of interments, entombments or inurnments are accurate, complying with verification procedures.
• Considers location of markers and nearby coping. Assesses whether temporary movement of the coping is needed and ensures materials are not damaged.
• Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers including granite and bronze markers.
• Able to perform backfill and tamping duties for interments and cremains safely using tools to create a tidy appearance at the site
• Mows grass, plows snow, waters lawns, fertilizes and trims shrubs, tends flower beds and regularly inspects assigned work areas to insure proper standards are maintained
• Operates lawn and grounds equipment including push and power mowers, snow blowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and other related power equipment
• Removes debris and trash from grounds. May include turning down vases and removing wilted flowers
• Participates on teams for openings and closings for interments, entombments and inurnments
• Performs minor repairs to the cemetery, building systems or equipment.
• Performs some of the duties associated with cremations such as maintaining inventory and complying with federal and state cremation regulations under minimal supervision
• Assists in moving and installing burial vaults
• Must follow safety rules and ensure compliance with the operating procedures of corporate, federal, state and local regulations, including OSHA regulations and Safety and Environmental guidelines

Job description

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Determines if location of interments, entombments or inurnments are accurate, complying with verification procedures.
• Considers location of markers and nearby coping. Assesses whether temporary movement of the coping is needed and ensures materials are not damaged.
• Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers including granite and bronze markers.
• Able to perform backfill and tamping duties for interments and cremains safely using tools to create a tidy appearance at the site
• Mows grass, plows snow, waters lawns, fertilizes and trims shrubs, tends flower beds and regularly inspects assigned work areas to insure proper standards are maintained
• Operates lawn and grounds equipment including push and power mowers, snow blowers, weed eaters, leaf blowers and other related power equipment
• Removes debris and trash from grounds. May include turning down vases and removing wilted flowers
• Participates on teams for openings and closings for interments, entombments and inurnments
• Performs minor repairs to the cemetery, building systems or equipment.
• Performs some of the duties associated with cremations such as maintaining inventory and complying with federal and state cremation regulations under minimal supervision
• Assists in moving and installing burial vaults
• Must follow safety rules and ensure compliance with the operating procedures of corporate, federal, state and local regulations, including OSHA regulations and Safety and Environmental guidelines

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent required

Experience

• Minimum 1 year relevant experience in landscaping, general construction, warehouse, physical labor demonstrating steady employment required
• Funeral industry experience preferred
• Expert Grounds Specialist must be able to demonstrate all proficiencies of a Grounds Specialist

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, tamper, pick, rake, sledge hammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer and leaf blower
• Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yard-stick, etc.)
• Ability to work in extreme weather conditions
• Physically agile and dexterous
• Ability to operate equipment in a safe and careful manner
• Ability to effectively work with others to accomplish tasks
• Ability to communicate effectively with associates, contractor personnel and client families
• Basic computer skills to enable retrieving and responding to email communications

WORK CONDITIONS

Work Environment

• Work outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions
• Comply with Field dress code policy

Work Postures

• Frequent, continuous periods of time standing, up 6 hours per day
• Climbing stairs to access buildings frequently

Physical Demands

• Lifting, pushing, pulling up to 50 pounds

Work Hours

• Working beyond "standard" hours as the need arises
• Schedule may fluctuate, if a need arises, to an earlier or a later shift

Postal Code: 77060

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-TX - Houston