JOB DESCRIPTION
Position: Cemetery Grounds Crew
Position Status: Full-Time
Schedule: Varies; Weekdays and some Weekends as needed
Category: Non-Exempt
Pay Range: $19.55-21.73 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, sledge hammer, 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
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $19.55 - $21.73 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Experience:
- Maintenance: 2 years (Required)
- Grounds Maintenance & Landscaping Occupations: 2 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: In person