Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
Accepting resumes via e-mail to careers@niefuneralhomes.com
Funeral Director(Full Time)
Are you tired of working at a funeral home that is stagnant and not growing? Are you working at a corporately owned funeral home and looking for a change where customer service is paramount? Are you tired of moving from firm to firm and looking to work for a firm that you could retire from? If you answered yes to any of these three questions, you need to send a resume to the link below.
We are a progressive third generation Family-Owned funeral home that is the market leader in families served from our two locations. The ideal Nie Team Member must have the same commitment to exceptional customer service and will be involved in all aspects of funeral service. You will be expected to serve a very diverse community providing both burial and cremation services. Your ability to communicate and build relationships both internally and externally is imperative with those you have the honor of serving and work with.
Nie Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service has a “World Class Team” of smart, energetic, and caring professionals that take great pride in the work that they do and the service they provide. For the right candidate you will be rewarded for your hard work and dedication receiving career satisfaction as well as the following tangible benefits:
• Competitive Compensation (Based off Experience)
• Healthy Work/Life Balance
o Including Paid Time Off
o Work Schedule with 1 weekday and every other weekend off
o No Night Transfers (although after hour paid transfers are available if desired)
o No Night Embalmings (although after hour paid embalmings are available if desired)
• Monthly Massage or Facial Allowance
• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Aggressive 401k Plan with Company Match
• Cell Phone Allowance
• Clothing Allowance
• Marker/Monument commissions
IF INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEAM SEND RESUME TO: CAREERS@NIEFUNERALHOMES.COM
Funeral Associate(Part-time)
Are you looking for a rewarding part-time employment opportunity where you can make a difference in the lives of the members of our community by providing comfort and care in their time of loss?
We are looking for new team members to assist us working visitations, funerals, and memorial services & gatherings in a part-time, at-need capacity during the day, evenings, and weekends.
Qualified candidates must have strong communication skills and the tact and ability to perform in dynamic and sometimes stressful conditions. Thinking on your feet, multi-tasking, and resilience are necessary. Frequent standing and lifting are also required.
A Funeral Service Associate would help with the following duties:
• Assist grieving families and friends while showing continual care and concern
• Answering phones
• Greeting families and directing visitors
• Hanging visitor’s coats and outerwear
• Preparing chapels for funeral and memorial services as well as attending at those services
o Setting chairs, casket/urn, flowers, memorial table items
o Ensuring restrooms and lounges are stocked and orderly
• Monitoring and distributing memorial stationary
• Receiving, moving, and arranging floral arrangements
• Supporting and assisting directors to ensure the highest quality, professional, and ethical services
o Help closing the casket at the appropriate time
o Help carrying casket/urn during services
o Help ushering as needed
o Carrying flowers to hearse or van for transportation to place of interment or other location
o Assisting at the cemetery or crematory
• Monitoring parking lot activities, setting up processions, and directing traffic in any weather
• General housing keeping throughout hosting times as well as clean-up resetting following services
A Funeral Service Associate must be able to:
• Possess and display empathy, care, and concern in a professional manner
• Possess effective qualities such as: responsibility, dependability, compassion, consideration, friendliness, and positivity.
• Have an adaptive/team player attitude
• Possess basic technological and computer skills including mobile devices and computers
• Ability to learn new skills including using an iPad, wireless microphone, and sound system
• Lift and move furniture, chapel chairs as well as maneuvering and lifting caskets
• Be resourceful and able to multi-task
• Be able to stand for extended periods of time
• Have professional and pleasant phone etiquette
• Possess a valid Michigan driver’s license and an insurable driving record
IF INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEAM SEND RESUME TO CAREERS@NIEFUNERALHOMES.COM
