A professional who directs cemetery program and coordinates, through subordinate personnel, activities of workers engaged in providing burial services and maintaining cemetery grounds. Responsibilities include:

• Formulates and administers cemetery policy and services under authority of governing board.
• Analyzes and coordinates budget estimates and regulates expenditures to administer budget.
• Periodically observes monuments to determine needs for repair or replacement.
• Oversees hiring and firing of applicants and workers.
• Directs activities of clerical staff and other workers engaged in burial services, landscaping, or maintenance of cemetery grounds.
• Directs subordinates to arrange details, such as site of burial, digging of grave or opening of crypt, and placement of equipment and protective covering, with director, funeral or other official for burial services.
• Directs subordinates to carry out burial arrangements.
• May participate in layout, planning and preparing paperwork on construction projects.
• May confer with suppliers, architects, contractors, paving company officials, and plumbers to plan and oversee major projects.
• May supervise sales staff or sell burial lots to patrons.