NorthStar Memorial Group’s maintenance teams take pride in preserving our grounds with precision, tradition, and care. As a Cemetery Caretaker, you play a vital role in ensuring every family’s experience is honored through safe, accurate, and respectful preparation of our cemetery and mausoleum spaces. This stable, year-round position offers meaningful work, transferable skills, and a strong sense of purpose.
The Cemetery Caretaker is responsible for maintaining the overall appearance, safety, and functionality of cemetery, mausoleum, and funeral home locations. This role requires hands-on backhoe operating experience for grave digging, trenching, and site preparation. Candidates without backhoe experience will NOT be considered.
Responsibilities
- Heavy Equipment Operation
- Operates a backhoe confidently and safely for grave digging, trenching, and precise excavation
- Uses practical excavation experience to ensure accurate depth, placement, and soil handling
- Performs routine equipment inspections and basic maintenance
- Follows all PPE requirements, safety protocols, and site procedures
- Grounds Keeping:
- Cuts grass.
- Maintains lawn and trims around trees, walkways, and memorial markers
- Lays sod
- Moves and removes flowers to and from the chapel and graveside.
- Blows leaf and grass
- Edges with stick edger
- Clears debris and maintains drives and walkways in a safe condition.
- Cleans ponds and fountains
- Hand digs/trenching
- Facilities Cleaning:
- Maintains overall appearance and cleanliness of funeral homes and/or mausoleum facilities.
- Cleans and maintains the facility, performs minor repairs, painting, etc.
- Assists in loading and unloading caskets.
- Vehicle and golf cart washing/cleaning
Qualifications
- 6 + months of backhoe operating experience (grave digging, construction excavation, trenching, or similar work)
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to lift 50+ lbs and perform physical outdoor labor in all weather conditions
We are an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Skills Required
- At least 6 months of backhoe operating experience, including grave digging, construction excavation, trenching, or similar work
- Valid driver's license
- Ability to lift 50 or more pounds
- Ability to perform physical outdoor labor in all weather conditions
What We Do
Passion. Professionalism. Personal growth. What we do is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to change lives and unleash your talent. Since 2004, NorthStar Memorial Group has grown, evolved and led the funeral and cemetery profession with a fresh perspective and without ever losing sight of what we do best: celebrating life and passionately supporting the families we serve. What began as a single property in Decatur, Illinois has now expanded to include more than 85 funeral, cremation and cemetery locations serving thousands of families across the United States. Here, we understand the power of legacies, and we’ve made it our life’s work to honor them. At NorthStar Memorial Group, we choose collaboration over bureaucracy. Here, everyone has a chance to lead. We encourage & empower our people at every level to speak up, be heard, and watch their ideas become realities. Degreed & non-degreed professionals, labor workers, industry experts – people from all career and experiential backgrounds have the opportunity to find a home here. Sound too good to be true? Apply today to see why our employees have voted NSMG one of the best companies to work for 8 years in a row and one of Selling Power's 2021 Top 50 Companies To Sell For! For more information about career opportunities with NorthStar, visit www.nsmg.com/careers/ or Join our Talent Network @ https://nsmg.jobs.net/en-US/ As a member of our Talent Network, you'll: - Receive alerts with new job opportunities that match your interests - Receive relevant communications and updates from our organization - Share job opportunities with family and friends through Social Media or email Whether you choose to apply or just leave your information, we look forward to staying connected with you
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