Morgue Operations Assistant

Posting Date: 09/21/26

Final date to receive applications: 09/24/26

Pay Range: $20.25 - $32.50

Job Type: Unclassified

Department:
Medical Examiner

Are you passionate about serving your community and helping others?

As a Morgue Operations Assistant, you'll have the opportunity to manage decedent storage by coordinating the admission and release of decedents for the 4th largest Medical Examiner jurisdiction in the nation! You'll contribute by ensuring decedents are handled with dignity and respect, maintaining chain-of-custody documentation, maintaining cooler space and organization, and interacting with next of kin, funeral homes, agencies, and other stakeholders.

*** Please note that this is a Night Shift position with a schedule of Friday - Monday, 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM.

This position is eligible for overtime compensation for all hours worked over 40 in the designated workweek.

Join a team dedicated to providing reliable and trustworthy medicolegal death investigations in our community! The Office of the Medical Examiner is a county agency charged under Arizona law to perform medical investigations of certain types of deaths under their jurisdiction. The goal of these investigations is to determine the medical cause and manner of death to help improve public health and safety.

We are looking for service-minded individuals to join our collaborative team to help the people of Maricopa County.

• Work with a greater purpose
• Tuition reimbursement
• Exceptional work-life balance
• Opportunities for growth and development within Maricopa County
• Low-cost, high-value healthcare for you and your qualifying dependents
• Child care benefits, including access to the Maricopa County Kids Club , dedicated to serving Maricopa County families
• Paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave
• Extensive wellness program, including an incentive
• Enrollment in the Arizona State Retirement System, a defined retirement benefit requiring an 11.98% per paycheck contribution rate that includes a 100% employer match on Day 1

Want to learn more about the County's Qualifying and Compensation Philosophy? Follow this link to learn more! Work With Us | Maricopa County, AZ

• High school diploma or GED
• Two years of experience in direct contact with decedents in a medical examiner/coroner's office, funeral home, or health care environment, to include the utilization of chain of custody forms.
• OR
• Two years of experience performing clerical duties in a health care, funeral home, law enforcement, or similar office environment, including at least one year of direct decedent/patient contact.
• OR
• Two years of experience performing office, administrative, and clerical duties, and a minimum of six months volunteering with the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner.
• OR
• An equivalent combination of post-secondary education in a life science, nursing, healthcare administration, or criminology field may substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Experience working or volunteering in a medical examiner/coroner's office
• Experience working with decedents
• Experience working with callers in a highly emotional state
• Clerical experience in a health care setting
• Direct patient care experience
• Bilingual skills (read, write, and speak in Spanish and English)
• Experience working with DAVE (the state's vital record system)
• Successful completion of college-level coursework in anatomy and physiology
• Successful completion of a medical office assistant training program

• Admit decedents to the OME by accepting the remains from OME or transportation services personnel, confirming the accuracy and completeness of the chain of custody paperwork, and completing admission steps in accordance with policies
• Act as a custodian of decedents by ensuring remains are secured, utilizing equipment to move decedents in the coolers, and performing scheduled cooler audits. Assist in the cleaning, sanitizing, and organization of decedent coolers
• When indicated by policies, obtain photographs, fingerprints, specimens, or other time-sensitive items from decedents
• Release decedents to the party responsible for completing the final disposition of the remains by removing the decedent from the cooler, verifying the case number and identity, and completing appropriate chain of custody paperwork
• Report cooler and equipment concerns and maintenance needs to supervisors
• Provide assistance to co-workers, transportation…