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Funeral services director

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Bereavement manager Burial ground custodian Cemetery caretaker Cemetery manager Crematorium operator Crematorium supervisor Crematorium technician Funeral director Funeral home worker Funeral services director Mortician

Funeral services directors coordinate the logistics of funerals. They support the deceased family by arranging the details concerning the location, dates and times of memorial services. Funeral services directors contact representatives of the cemetery to prepare the site, plan transportation for the deceased person, advise on the types of memorials and legal requirements or paperwork. funeral services directors organise the daily operations of the crematorium. They oversee the staff's activities in the crematorium and ensure that they deliver services according to legal requirements. They monitor the crematorium service revenue budget and develop and maintain operational rules within the crematorium.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Making arrangements for, and conducting, funerals, cremations and burials;
(b) Embalming human bodies to retard or arrest the process of decay;
(c) Conforming to health and sanitation and ensuring that legal requirements concerning embalming are met;
(d) Incising and closing incisions on various parts of the body and reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary;
(e) Dressing bodies and placing them in caskets;
(f) Conducting interviews to arrange for preparation of obituary notices, to assist with the selection of caskets or urns, and to determine the location and time of burials or cremations.

Knowledge

  • Management and administration

Digital competencies

  • Developing professional relationships or networks
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Promoting products, services, or programs
  • Maintaining operational records
  • Accompanying and welcoming people

Digital competencies

  • Creating visual displays and decorations

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Leading others
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn
  • Supporting others
  • Planning and organising

Professional groups of the occupation

Service and sales workers

Personal service workers

Other personal services workers

Undertakers and embalmers

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Undertakers and embalmers

179

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

37,84%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-18,64% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

24,02%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

31,28%

Part-time contracts

1,75% Turnover index

54

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

15%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Personal service workers

53%

47%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Personal service workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Other personal services workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Undertakers and embalmers

No experience
29%
Less than 1 year
9%
Between 1 and 2 years
21%
Between 2 and 4 years
31%
Between 4 and 8 years
2%
More than 8 years
8%
Administrative and support service activities
21%
Human health and social work activities
19%
Manufacturing
10%
Transportation and storage
10%
Education
10%
Others
30%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.