Grave Digger

Job Summary
Join our team as a Grave Digger and play a vital role in maintaining respectful, well-kept burial sites. This position involves preparing graves, ensuring proper site maintenance, and supporting the overall dignity of the cemetery environment. Your dedication will help create a comforting and respectful space for families during their times of need. Participates in openings and closings for interments, entombments, inurnments, and disinterment as well as the installation of memorials and markers.

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
• 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. Must be able to be added to commercial auto insurance with MVR approval. CDL is not required, however, it is helpful.

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

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $17.00 per hour

Expected hours: 32 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance

Language:

• English (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Crestview, FL 32536 (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $17