diff --git a/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml b/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
index 2ebea4ccc1..09f4fb0788 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
+++ b/msa/js-executor/config/custom-environment-variables.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ kafka:
   linger_ms: "TB_KAFKA_LINGER_MS" # for producer
   partitions_consumed_concurrently: "TB_KAFKA_PARTITIONS_CONSUMED_CONCURRENTLY" # (EXPERIMENTAL) increase this value if you are planning to handle more than one partition (scale up, scale down) - this will decrease the latency
   requestTimeout: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS"
+  connectionTimeout: "TB_KAFKA_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_MS"
   compression: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_COMPRESSION" # gzip or uncompressed
   topic_properties: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_JE_TOPIC_PROPERTIES"
   use_confluent_cloud: "TB_QUEUE_KAFKA_USE_CONFLUENT_CLOUD"
diff --git a/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml b/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
index 96f3401da5..66a153bad4 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
+++ b/msa/js-executor/config/default.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ kafka:
   linger_ms: "5" # for producer
   partitions_consumed_concurrently: "1" # (EXPERIMENTAL) increase this value if you are planning to handle more than one partition (scale up, scale down) - this will decrease the latency
   requestTimeout: "30000" # The default value in kafkajs is: 30000
+  connectionTimeout: "1000" # The default value in kafkajs is: 1000
   compression: "gzip" # gzip or uncompressed
   topic_properties: "retention.ms:604800000;segment.bytes:26214400;retention.bytes:104857600;partitions:100;min.insync.replicas:1"
   use_confluent_cloud: false
diff --git a/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.ts b/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.ts
index 6cb8281837..9b089dbb57 100644
--- a/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.ts
+++ b/msa/js-executor/queue/kafkaTemplate.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export class KafkaTemplate implements IQueue {
     private maxBatchSize = Number(config.get('kafka.batch_size'));
     private linger = Number(config.get('kafka.linger_ms'));
     private requestTimeout = Number(config.get('kafka.requestTimeout'));
+    private connectionTimeout = Number(config.get('kafka.connection_timeout_ms'));
     private compressionType = (config.get('kafka.compression') === "gzip") ? CompressionTypes.GZIP : CompressionTypes.None;
     private partitionsConsumedConcurrently = Number(config.get('kafka.partitions_consumed_concurrently'));
 
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ export class KafkaTemplate implements IQueue {
 
         kafkaConfig['requestTimeout'] = this.requestTimeout;
 
+        kafkaConfig['connectionTimeout'] = this.connectionTimeout;
+
         if (useConfluent) {
             kafkaConfig['sasl'] = {
                 mechanism: config.get('kafka.confluent.sasl.mechanism') as any,