diff --git a/roles/odcs/base/templates/etc/systemd/system/odcs-celery-backend.service.j2 b/roles/odcs/base/templates/etc/systemd/system/odcs-celery-backend.service.j2
index cf70749455..409d6ae455 100644
--- a/roles/odcs/base/templates/etc/systemd/system/odcs-celery-backend.service.j2
+++ b/roles/odcs/base/templates/etc/systemd/system/odcs-celery-backend.service.j2
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ Type=forking
 User=odcs
 Group=fedmsg
 WorkingDirectory=/tmp
-ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery multi start worker \
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery-3 multi start worker \
   -A odcs.server.celery_tasks --pidfile=/var/run/odcs-backend/%%n.pid \
   --max-tasks-per-child=10 \
   --logfile=/var/log/odcs-backend/%%n%%I.log --loglevel=INFO --concurrency={{ odcs_celery_concurrency }} -Q {{ odcs_celery_queues|join(',') }}'
-ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery multi stopwait worker \
+ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery-3 multi stopwait worker \
   --pidfile=/var/run/odcs-backend/%%n.pid'
-ExecReload=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery multi restart worker \
+ExecReload=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/celery-3 multi restart worker \
   -A odcs.server.celery_tasks --pidfile=/var/run/odcs-backend/%%n.pid \
   --max-tasks-per-child=10 \
   --logfile=/var/log/odcs-backend/%%n%%I.log --loglevel=INFO --concurrency={{ odcs_celery_concurrency }} -Q {{ odcs_celery_queues|join(',') }}'