diff --git a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
index e372ab90e..1e3646795 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipeline.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ agents:
   queue: central
   slurm_mem: 8G
   modules: climacommon/2025_03_18
+  slurm_time: 00:15:00
 
 env:
   OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS: 1