Superintendent, Maintenance​/Cleaning

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We have been honored to deliver healing experiences to the Houston community. We exist to serve the unique needs of every family. North Star Memorial Group is seeking a Superintendent at San Jacinto Funeral Home & Memorial Park in Houston, Texas. This role is essential to maintaining a beautiful, safe, and dignified environment for the families we serve. Our Superintendents play a key part in cemetery operations, leading with professionalism, accuracy, and respect.

We value dedication, recognize potential, and celebrate ethical leadership across our teams.

• Maintain memorials, markers, and crypts to ensure a well-kept and respectful environment.
• Verify all interment, entombment, and inurnment locations using cemetery maps and layout documentation.
• Perform grave opening and closing with precision, safety, and reverence.
• Install markers and memorials according to specifications and cemetery standards.
• Operate large mechanical equipment, including backhoes, for burial vault placement and grounds tasks.
• Ensure grounds crew uniforms, appearance, and conduct reflect professionalism and respect toward client families.
• Maintain inventories, clean facilities, and conduct daily policing of the grounds to remove debris, trash, limbs, and other items that detract from a dignified setting.
• Support any role required within groundskeeping or facilities maintenance.

• Experience operating large machinery; backhoe experience required.
• Ability to move, install, and set burial vaults safely and accurately.
• Ability to interpret cemetery maps, grave layouts, and plot documentation.
• Ability to lead grounds staff in caretaking and maintenance responsibilities.
• Work cooperatively with funeral home and cemetery team members.

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.