Cemetery Grounds Crew

Job Description

Position: Cemetery Grounds Crew

Location: St. Mary Cemetery and Funeral Center

Position Status: Full-Time

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7am - 3:30pm and Weekends as needed

Category: Non-Exempt

Pay Range: $22.32 - $24.80 per hour

Supervisor: Reports to the Cemetery Grounds Working Foreman

Job Description

The Cemetery Grounds Crew maintains cemetery grounds and prepares graves, grave areas including and not limited to grave excavation; burial functions (opening/closing for interments, entombments, inurnments, disinterment); lawn sodding, seeding, fertilizing; monument and marker setting; manual and mechanical earth moving and lawn care equipment operation; cemetery cleanup.

Position Components

Requisites

- Reports to the Cemetery Grounds Working Foreman

- Operate hand-held tools and equipment including but not limited to a shovel, pick, rake, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw and pump

- Operate mechanical equipment including and not limited to a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailer, dump trailer, jack hammer, tamper, and backhoe

- Use accurately measuring devices (i.e. tape measure, yard stick, etc.)

- Communicate effectively with fellow workers, contractor personnel and client families

- Lift heavy objects up to 30 lbs.

- Minimum six months' experience operating standard cemetery equipment

- Certification / license: Acceptable driving record and applicable license(s) to operate equipment /vehicles

- High School degree or equivalent

Job Duties

- Perform opening & closing for burials, entombments, and inurnments

- Set, installs, and assemble foundations, memorials, and markers

- Install outer burial containers

- Handle and complete Client Family work orders that pertain to individual grave and marker maintenance

- Respond to and complete service request work orders

- Perform interment verification procedures

- Prepares the 25-foot burial radius area to ensure clean and well-ordered

- Fill grave, tamps, grounds vegetation

- Maintain a clean and orderly work area

- Pressure washes vehicles and equipment as requested

- Perform other ground duties as assigned by Management

Rules & Regulations

- Follow all Company safety rules

- Bring safety concerns to the direct supervisor

- Maintain and protect Company assets by performing regular preventive maintenance including machines, equipment, and facilities

This job requires a background check.