About this role
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Maintains overall grounds care at a cemetery or funeral home location(s). Performs basic tasks associated with setting up funeral services, helping to open/close burials, install memorials, and perform maintenance duties.
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