Becoming a Funeral Director in Queensland

About this role

Funeral Directors plan and coordinate arrangements for funerals according to the wishes of the deceased or their relatives.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for a Funeral Director include:

• interviews families and associates of deceased to assist with funeral arrangements such as selection of coffin, type of service and publication of death notices
• advise on funeral costs and welfare provisions
• collects bodies from mortuaries
• ensures death certificates have been issued, burial and cremation certificates processed and that other legal requirements are met
• prepares bodies for viewing and burial by washing, draining body fluids, applying padding and cosmetics, dressing bodies and placing them in coffins
• liaise with clergy, cemetery and crematorium staff
• co-ordinates movement of coffins and funeral cars, arranges floral displays and collects attendance and tribute cards
• arranges placement of coffins at funeral sites, and placing and adjusting of floral displays and lighting
• keeps records and accounts of transactions and services performed
• may arrange construction of memorials and the disposal of ashes.