Location: Shreveport,LA, USA
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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.
**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ 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
+ Conducts Interment Verification Procedures
+ Conducts 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**
**Education**
+ High School degree or equivalent
**Experience**
+ Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment
**Licenses**
+ 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
+ Understands safety and security issues and implications
+ Mechanical aptitude
Postal Code: 71108
Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance
Job Location: US-LA - Shreveport
Job Profile ID: F00205
Time Type: Full time
Location Name: Centuries Memorial Funeral Home - Centuries Memorial Park