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IUEC Local 15 recruitment window — Milwaukee, WI

✓ Written by a federally recognized pre-apprenticeship instructor · ✓ Updated September 2026 · ✓ Test facts verified against NEIEP’s official study guide

IUEC Local 15 covers the Milwaukee, WI recruitment area. NEIEP has not published exact application dates yet, and currently projects the next opening around January 2028.

Current status

Tentative

No exact dates published yet. NEIEP currently lists: January 2028 tentative.

Next opening (NEIEP estimate)

January 2028

NEIEP currently lists: “January 2028 tentative.” A projection is not an application date — exact dates are published closer to the window, and that is when applications actually open.

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What applying to IUEC Local 15 involves

IUEC Local 15 covers the Milwaukee, WI area under NEIEP’s national recruitment system. Applications are submitted through NEIEP, not to the local union office directly. Once you apply and are scheduled, you’ll sit the EIAT entrance test, and if you pass, complete a hands-on tool assessment and a JAC interview before landing on a ranked hiring list valid for 2 years.

We do not have this area’s specific application URL, class size, minimum age, or physical requirements published anywhere we can verify — those details, along with any application cap for this particular window, should be confirmed directly at neiep.org before you apply.

The gap between windows is the whole advantage. Each NEIEP area recruits roughly every two years, and when Milwaukee, WI does open, the window runs days to about three weeks — Portland’s Local 23 window hit its 750-application cap in under 36 hours in 2023. Nobody passes an entrance test they started studying for the week applications opened. The months before the announcement are the part you control.

The EIAT: what you’ll actually be tested on

The entrance test is the EIAT (Elevator Industry Aptitude Test): 100 multiple-choice questions, paper-administered, for a $25 fee — 35 reading (cloze fill-in-the-blank), 35 mechanical aptitude (illustrated, Bennett-style), and 30 math. You need 70% to pass, but the EIAT does not rank you — it’s a pass/fail gate only.

Your EIAT score doesn’t decide your rank — the interview does. After you pass, a hands-on tool assessment scores into a JAC interview (two interviewers, averaged, standardized rubric, 70% minimum). That interview score alone sets your position on the hiring list. Score 71% or 98% on the EIAT and you’re on equal footing walking into the interview — so prepare for both, and don’t stop at the test.

See the full breakdown of what’s actually on the test at the EIAT format page, or start practicing with free full-length EIAT practice tests in NEIEP’s real format.

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Free EIAT practice tests

100 questions per test, scored against the 70% pass mark.

What’s actually on the EIAT

Reading, mechanical aptitude, and math — verified against NEIEP’s own study guide.

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