Job Description

RIGHTSTONE IS HIRING!

Job Title: Cemetery Helper

Location: Canton, Ohio 44718

Pay Rate: $16.00/hour

Schedule: 40 hours per week

Contract Duration: Temporary through December 2025

We are currently seeking a Cemetery Helper to support the daily operations of a cemetery in Canton, OH. This position offers a meaningful opportunity to assist in creating and maintaining a respectful, clean, and dignified environment for families and their loved ones. If you are dependable, hands-on, and take pride in outdoor work, this may be the right fit for you.

Job Description:

The Cemetery Helper provides overall grounds maintenance services, ensuring the cemetery is well-maintained and respectfully prepared for burials and memorial installations. This includes landscaping, burial preparation, and grave marker placement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in performing openings and closings for burials, entombments, and inurnments.
• Operate landscaping equipment such as mowers, weed eaters, and blowers to maintain the grounds.
• Dig graves, haul dirt, place headstones, and assist with the setup and teardown of gravesites.
• Set, install, and assemble memorials, markers, foundations, and outer burial containers.
• Handle and complete service requests from client families, particularly related to grave and marker maintenance.
• Perform 25-foot radius site preparation for burials and ensure the surrounding area is clean and neat.
• Fill graves, tamp soil, seed or sod the area as needed after services.
• Maintain a clean and organized work environment while adhering to all safety protocols and company procedures.
• Complete Dignity training and uphold the standards of the Dignity Memorial Promise.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by management.

Requirements:

• 6 months to 1 year of experience in groundskeeping, landscaping, or similar outdoor labor roles.
• Proficient in operating hand-held tools and landscaping equipment such as shovels, picks, rakes, sledgehammers, lawn mowers, weed trimmers, blowers, chainsaws, and water pumps.
• Experience operating mechanical equipment including dump trucks, tractors, utility vehicles, marker trailers, dump trailers, jackhammers, tampers, and backhoes.
• Ability to accurately use measuring tools such as tape measures and yardsticks.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work professionally with team members, contractors, and client families.
• Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs and perform physically demanding tasks.
• Comfortable working indoors or outdoors year-round in various weather conditions.
• Willingness to work a standard 40-hour workweek with flexibility for additional hours as needed.

RightStone is a strategic partner that works with our clients to place the highest caliber of talent for a wide range of industries and skill sets. For over 23 years RightStone has assisted organizations in attracting, recruiting, and placing qualified candidates quickly for contract, contract to hire, and direct hire opportunities. The right candidates are the most critical aspect of who RightStone is. If you are that candidate, we are interested in speaking with you!   

RightStone is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.   

RightStone is committed to compliance with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in Company operations and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company, including supervisors, coworkers, independent contractors and other third parties.  

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