Cemetery Services Specialist

Job Responsibilities

• Participates in openings and closings for interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterment as well as the installation of memorials and markers.
• Performs grounds and facilities maintenance.
• Performs openings & closings for burials, entombments and inurnments.
• Sets, installs, and assembles foundations, memorials, and markers.
• Installs outer burial containers.
• Handles and completes work orders from client families as it pertains to individual grave and marker maintenance.
• Responds to and completes requests for service/work orders.
• Covers Interment Verification Procedures.
• Covers 25 foot radius preparation for burials and ensures the area is clean and neat.
• Fills grave, tamps, seeds or sods.
• Adheres to all Company safety rules and Universal Precautions.
• Maintains and protects Company assets by performing regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and facilities.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area.
• Completes Dignity University courses and other training as assigned.
• Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum Requirements

• High School degree or equivalent.
• Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment.
• Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment/vehicles.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to operate hand-held tools and equipment, including, but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledge hammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw and pump.
• Ability to operate mechanical equipment including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper and backhoe.
• Ability to accurately use measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yardstick, etc.).
• Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel and client families.
• Ability to lift heavy objects up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions.
• Understanding of safety and security issues and implications.
• Mechanical aptitude.

Compensation

$16.00/hr

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care)
• Health Savings Account with Company Contribution
• Sick Leave
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Accidental Death or Dismemberment Insurance
• Dependent Life Insurance
• SCI 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company match
• Employee Assistance Program

Postal Code: 81005 Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance Job Location: US-CO - Pueblo