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- Requires a tactful, sympathetic and respectful manner to deal sensitively with bereaved people
- With experience, option to move into crematorium management
- Your work may also involve helping with grounds maintenance or supervising cemetery workers
As a Crematorium technician your day-to-day duties could include cleaning and preparing the chapel before the service, making sure cremation equipment is operating safely, receiving coffins and carrying out identification checks, meeting mourners as they arrive and escorting them into the chapel, making sure that legislation and regulations are followed, operating cremation equipment, making sure cremated remains are identified, stored and disposed of appropriately, accompanying visitors to existing memorials, and keeping records. You'll also make sure all areas in and around the crematorium are kept clean and well maintained.
DAY-TO-DAY DUTIES
- Cleaning and preparing the chapel before the service
- Making sure cremation equipment is operating safely
- Receiving coffins and carrying out identification checks
- Meeting mourners as they arrive and escorting them into the chapel
- Making sure that legislation and regulations are followed
- Operating cremation equipment
- Making sure cremated remains are identified, stored and disposed of appropriately
- Accompanying visitors to existing memorials
- Keeping records
- Making sure all areas in and around the crematorium are kept clean and well maintained
DAY-TO-DAY ENVIRONMENT
You'll usually work 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, but services also take place on Saturdays. You may also help with grounds maintenance or supervise cemetery workers, which will mean being out in all weather conditions.
You'll need
This role requires a tactful, sympathetic and respectful manner to deal sensitively with bereaved people.
There are no set entry requirements, but some employers may ask for a GCSE in English.
You'll need to be able to deal sensitively with bereaved people. It can also be useful if you have experience of working with the public and basic IT skills.
Once you're working in a crematorium, your employer will arrange for you to follow the Crematorium Technicians Training Scheme.
CAREER PROSPECTS
With experience, you could move into crematorium management.