diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.sh b/.github/workflows/docs.sh
index a7b27926800..63572502e5a 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
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 set -e
 
+# override env to use Java 11 to for build instead default Java 8
+# path to JDK is taken from https://github.com/apache/flink-connector-shared-utils/blob/ci_utils/docker/base/Dockerfile#L37-L40
+export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME_11_X64
+export PATH=$JAVA_HOME_11_X64/bin:$PATH
+
 mvn --version
 java -version
 javadoc -J-version