Cemetery Services Specialist

C05 Service Corporation International (Canada) ULC

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PR - Ponce Until 10/3/2026 First posted July 16, 2025 Last posted August 4, 2026
Job description

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

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.

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 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 of 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, sledgehammer, lawn mower, weed trimmer, leaf blower, chainsaw, and pump
  • Ability to operate mechanical equipment, including, but not limited to, a dump truck, tractor, utility vehicle, marker trailed, dump trailer, jackhammer, 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 to 30 lbs.
  • Ability to work in various adverse weather conditions
  • Understands safety and security issues and implications
  • Mechanical aptitude

Postal Code: 00732

Category (Portal Searching): Cemetery Maintenance

Job Location: US-PR - Ponce
About this role

Summary

Operates equipment, performs burial and memorial services, maintains grounds, and ensures safety procedures.

Job title

Cemetery Services Specialist

Experience level

6+ months

Industry

funeral services

Location requirements

PR - Ponce, on-site work only

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

equipment operationsafety proceduresmeasuring devicesmanual toolsmechanical aptitude

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

groundskeepingequipment operationcemetery maintenance
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Ponce, Puerto Rico

On-site City