Choosing a career in maintenance at NorthStar means doing work that truly matters. You help create safe, clean, peaceful spaces where families gather to honor loved ones, ensuring every location reflects dignity, care, and respect.
With locations nationwide, you're part of a connected team that values reliability, teamwork, and pride in craftsmanship. You're supported with hands-on training, steady work, and opportunities to build long-term skills.
This role combines physical skill with purpose-driven service. From maintaining grounds to caring for facilities, your work helps preserve meaningful spaces and makes a lasting difference for families and communities.
Preparing the grounds and facilities for the day by ensuring every space is clean, safe, and welcoming for families and visitors.
Maintaining chapels, offices, and common areas so every service and gathering takes place in a peaceful, well-cared-for environment.
Providing support and resources for families in their time of need.
Handling general maintenance, pressure washing, painting, light repairs, and equipment care to keep each location running smoothly.
Working closely with funeral home staff and leadership to ensure every detail is ready for families and guests.
Preserving sacred spaces that honor generations of families and reflect the highest standards of dignity and respect.
Your growth journey at NorthStar.
Begin your journey with hands-on training in facility upkeep, grounds care, and essential operations. You’ll develop practical skills in maintenance, safety, and site care while supporting the daily experience of families and guests.
Step into leadership by guiding a team, coordinating projects, and ensuring every location meets NorthStar’s standards of care, safety, and presentation. You’ll help shape the spaces where meaningful moments happen every day.
Grow your expertise with deeper responsibility across buildings, equipment, and grounds. You’ll take on advanced repairs, preventative maintenance, and special projects that keep our locations running smoothly and beautifully.
Advance into senior leadership by overseeing the full care and operation of a cemetery, mausoleum, crematory, or funeral home campus. Lead maintenance and grounds teams, coordinate restoration and capital projects, partner with vendors and operations leadership, and ensure every space reflects the highest standards of care, accuracy, and respect. You’ll help preserve both the legacy of the property and the experience families have every day.
Begin your journey with hands-on training in facility upkeep, grounds care, and essential operations. You’ll develop practical skills in maintenance, safety, and site care while supporting the daily experience of families and guests.
Grow your expertise with deeper responsibility across buildings, equipment, and grounds. You’ll take on advanced repairs, preventative maintenance, and special projects that keep our locations running smoothly and beautifully.
Step into leadership by guiding a team, coordinating projects, and ensuring every location meets NorthStar’s standards of care, safety, and presentation. You’ll help shape the spaces where meaningful moments happen every day.
Advance into senior leadership by overseeing the full care and operation of a cemetery, mausoleum, crematory, or funeral home campus. Lead maintenance and grounds teams, coordinate restoration and capital projects, partner with vendors and operations leadership, and ensure every space reflects the highest standards of care, accuracy, and respect. You’ll help preserve both the legacy of the property and the experience families have every day.
Where maintenance professionals come from.
of grounds or facilities maintenance hires have backgrounds in skilled trades or construction.
Carpentry assistants, general laborers, equipment operators, landscape technicians
transition into cemetery maintenance from landscaping and groundskeeping roles.
Golf course grounds crew, park maintenance, commercial landscaping teams
of maintenance professionals come from manufacturing or mechanical support roles.
Facility technicians, machine operators, industrial maintenance assistants
Quick answers to common questions about working at NorthStar.
Our culture is rooted in PACT — the core values that guide how we serve families and how we show up for one another. PACT stands for: Passion, Accountability, Caring & Teamwork. These are not just words on a wall. They shape how we make decisions, support families, collaborate across locations, and grow our careers. You’ll see PACT reflected in how leaders coach, how teams communicate, and how we measure success.
Not always. Many roles — especially in sales, administration, and support — do not require funeral profession experience. We value transferable skills, empathy, and a willingness to learn.
We invest in our people. Training varies by role but may include blended learning, hands-on mentorship, digital resources, and structured onboarding. Our goal is to help you feel confident, supported, and prepared for success.
Many of our leaders and long-tenured employees started in entry or mid-level roles. We believe in internal growth, skill development, and creating pathways for people who want to build a long-term career with us.
Our culture is built on care, respect, accountability, and teamwork. We take our work seriously — but we also value humanity, balance, and supporting one another.
If you’re drawn to meaningful work, value stability and growth, and want to be part of something bigger than yourself — you’re likely in the right place.
