CareerPlan

Forensic Mortuary Technician I

New York City, NY, usFull-time2026-11-10 → 2026-11-12
No visa sponsorship

Core

Assisting supervisors in mortuary operations, handling decedents, and performing morgue procedures for criminal, accidental, and suspicious deaths in NYC.

Role type

Entry-level forensic mortuary technician

Builds

Death certificates, burial permits, and case documentation

Domain

Public safety / Forensic medicine

Deliverable

physical/clinical work

Required skills

Decedent handling, fingerprinting, operating mortuary systems, vehicle operation, incident reporting, sanitation, DNA sample collection

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

OCME Case Management System (CMS), CMS Mobile App

Responsibilities

Assisting supervisors in day-to-day unit operations, performing mortuary procedures and decedent handling, preparing incident reports and statistics, operating case management systems for documents, cleaning and sanitizing mortuary areas, reporting accidents and incidents, weighing and lifting remains, loading burial boxes, driving to death scenes for case recovery, taking fingerprints of remains, performing borough case reconciliations

Seniority

Entry-level, hands-on IC