Laborer

Job Description:

The position provides overall grounds and maintenance service conducive to provide burial, landscaping, and burial marker installation services

Job Responsibilities may include:

·         Assist in performing openings & closings for burials, entombments, and inurnments

·         Operating a mower, weed eater and blower

·         Digging graves, placing headstones, hauling dirt, set up and tear down of gravesites.

·         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 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 a clean and orderly work area

·         Completes Dignity training as assigned

·         Adheres to all standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise

·         Performs all other duties as assigned by management

Experience:

·         Minimum of six (6) months experience operating standard equipment

·         Ability to 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

·         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, yard stick, etc.)

·         Ability to communicate effectively with fellow associates, contractor personnel and client families

·         Ability to lift heavy objects up to 50 lbs.

Work Conditions:

·         Work indoors or outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions

Work Hours:

·         40 hours a week

·         Working beyond “standard†hours as the need arises