diff --git a/.ci/Jenkinsfile_baseline_capture b/.ci/Jenkinsfile_baseline_capture
index e017ba54f5595..7fefbbb26fd12 100644
--- a/.ci/Jenkinsfile_baseline_capture
+++ b/.ci/Jenkinsfile_baseline_capture
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ kibanaPipeline(timeoutMinutes: 210) {
             ) {
               withGcpServiceAccount.fromVaultSecret('secret/kibana-issues/dev/ci-artifacts-key', 'value') {
                 withEnv([
-                  'BUILD_TS_REFS_DISABLE=false', // disabled in root config so we need to override that here
                   'BUILD_TS_REFS_CACHE_ENABLE=true',
                   'BUILD_TS_REFS_CACHE_CAPTURE=true',
                   'DISABLE_BOOTSTRAP_VALIDATION=true',
diff --git a/test/scripts/checks/type_check.sh b/test/scripts/checks/type_check.sh
index a7ea84d4cadc7..5e091625de4ed 100755
--- a/test/scripts/checks/type_check.sh
+++ b/test/scripts/checks/type_check.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,5 @@
 
 source src/dev/ci_setup/setup_env.sh
 
-checks-reporter-with-killswitch "Build TS Refs" \
-  node scripts/build_ts_refs --ignore-type-failures --force
-
 checks-reporter-with-killswitch "Check Types" \
   node scripts/type_check
diff --git a/vars/workers.groovy b/vars/workers.groovy
index 1260f74f1bdf9..5d3328bc8a3c4 100644
--- a/vars/workers.groovy
+++ b/vars/workers.groovy
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ def base(Map params, Closure closure) {
       "TEST_BROWSER_HEADLESS=1",
       "GIT_BRANCH=${checkoutInfo.branch}",
       "TMPDIR=${env.WORKSPACE}/tmp", // For Chrome and anything else that respects it
-      "BUILD_TS_REFS_DISABLE=true", // no need to build ts refs in bootstrap
     ]) {
       withCredentials([
         string(credentialsId: 'vault-addr', variable: 'VAULT_ADDR'),