Mortuary Manager

Use your lifetime of experience to help people in your community everyday
- Based at our shared services in Glen Waverley and /or Tullamarine
- Join a market leader with great benefits and a strong workplace culture

**Have you considered a career helping people and families through a difficult time in their life?**

InvoCare is an industry leader within the funeral industry, we currently operate over 300 funeral locations, 17 cemeteries and 29 crematoria, throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and growing.

As the Mortuary Manager at our Shared Services Centre's in Glen Waverley and Tullamarine, you will provide exceptional leadership to the Mortuary team as well as, providing expertise in the Mortuary area and ensure excellence in customer service

**Duties of the Mortuary Manager include**:

- Develop the internal capability of Embalmers and Morticians to ensure collaboration between sites and the delivery of quality outcomes building future leadership capability
- Deliver successful Service Excellence strategies, systems and processes developed in collaboration with the Operation, Regional and Shared Services Managers and teams
- Monitor all mortuaries to ensure all team members accurately follow instructions according to the mortuary instruction forms, mortuary registration documents and checking procedures
- Continually monitor and evaluate workplace operational issues and make improvements
- Promote good mortuary practices and service delivery standards that meet customer and company expectations.
- Where necessary perform body preparation procedures such as maneuvering, lifting, washing, dressing, and supporting the morticians and embalmers where necessary.
- Ensure that all mortuaries are maintained, cleaned and sterilized including all equipment.
- Understand the Coffin/Casket trimming and engraving process.
- Have an understanding and involvement of funerals, transfers, and viewings

**About you**:

- Be at ease with death, the expression of grief and handling deceased people.
- Show integrity by being honest, ethical and trustworthy.
- Broad operational management experience in in a service-driven organisation
- Strong people leadership and ability to articulate clear and positive future direction.
- Ability to manage employees operating across multiple sites, structures and environment
- In a fit state of physical and psychological health to be able to handle the inherent requirements of the role.
- Ability to move between strategy and operational execution.
- Good commercial acumen, financial literacy and decision-making skills
- Proven track record of driving and managing business process and cultural change
- Experience in developing and maintaining relationships.
- Current Driver’s License
- Mortuary Technicians/Embalmers qualifications desirable

**Benefits of joining InvoCare**:
You may not have considered this industry before, but we provide vital services to families to assist them to celebrate the lives of their loved ones in a way that they would have wanted. The benefits you can receive include:

- Reward and recognition programs
- Tailored induction and training programs
- Well designed and fitted out locations with the latest facilities to assist in providing an exceptional client family experience
- Networking opportunities across the business and with peers
- Birthday and paid parental leave after 12 months of service
- Free access Employee Assist Program
- Annual family day social events

**How to Apply**: