Cemetery Services Specialist - Military Veterans

at Service Corporation International

Charlotte, North Carolina

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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.

**Cemetery Services Specialist**

**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: 28208

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-NC - Charlotte

Job Profile ID: F00205

Charlotte, North Carolina

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Service Corporation International
Who we are. What we do.

We’re more than North America’s largest single provider of funeral, cremation and cemetery services. We are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters who are devoted to the communities where we live and work. We are more than 25,000 dedicated individuals who provide caring assistance to families in need, honor veterans and public servants and deliver lifesaving programs to help keep children and seniors safe.

Our Purpose

Service Corporation International is dedicated to compassionately supporting families at difficult times, celebrating the significance of lives that have been lived, and preserving memories that transcend generations, with dignity and honor.

As used herein, “SCI” refers to Service Corporation International and its affiliated companies.

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