diff --git a/.github/workflows/automerge-transifex-app-prs.yml b/.github/workflows/automerge-transifex-app-prs.yml
index 5df24a43cb5..67c08bd209c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/automerge-transifex-app-prs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/automerge-transifex-app-prs.yml
@@ -15,15 +15,32 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-
-      - name: Auto-merge pull request
+      - name: merge pull request
+        uses: nick-fields/retry@v2
+        id: mergePR
         env:
           # secrets can't be used in job conditionals, so we set them to env here
           TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_NAME: "${{ secrets.TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_NAME }}"
           TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_ID: "${{ secrets.TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_ID }}"
           # This token requires Write access to the openedx-translations repo
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.EDX_TRANSIFEX_BOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.number }}
         if: "${{ github.actor == env.TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_NAME && github.actor_id == env.TRANSIFEX_APP_ACTOR_ID }}"
-        run: |
-          # Add the pull request to the merge queue with --rebase commit strategy
-          gh pr merge ${{ github.head_ref }} --rebase --auto
+        with:
+          retry_wait_seconds: 180
+          max_attempts: 5
+          timeout_minutes: 15
+          retry_on: error
+          command: |
+            # Attempt to merge the PR
+            gh pr merge ${{ github.head_ref }} --rebase --auto
+
+            MERGE_DATE="$(gh pr view "$PR_NUMBER" --json mergedAt --jq '.mergedAt')"
+
+            if [ -n "$MERGE_DATE" ]; then
+              echo "Success: PR merged at '$MERGE_DATE'"
+              exit 0
+            else
+              echo "PR not merged yet, retrying via 'nick-fields/retry'..."
+              exit 1
+            fi