diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
index 570b8b2c..d9fe8e8e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_cd.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: ansys/actions/doc-build@v5
         with:
           check-links: false
-          sphinxopts: "-j 1 -W --keep-going"
+          sphinxopts: "-W --keep-going"
 
   smoke-tests:
     name: "Build wheelhouse for latest Python versions"
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index b9920308..32e759aa 100755
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 
 # You can set these variables from the command line.
-SPHINXOPTS    = -j auto
+SPHINXOPTS    =
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
 SOURCEDIR     = source
 BUILDDIR      = _build
diff --git a/doc/changelog.d/580.changed.md b/doc/changelog.d/580.changed.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2848d518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/changelog.d/580.changed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove documentation build parallel execution arguments
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 90b05ceb..d6f66405 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ pydantic = { version = "*" }
 requests-mock = { version = "*" }
 pytest-mock = { version = "*" }
 covertable = { version = "*" }
-
 mypy = "^1.8.0"
 types-requests = { version = "*" }
 types-python-dateutil = { version = "*" }