diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dbceaf2d..bbfb9f30 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.failOnViolation>
 		<maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>true</maven-checkstyle-plugin.includeTestSourceDirectory>
 		<puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>8.29</puppycrawl-tools-checkstyle.version>
-		<checkstyle.location>../etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
+		<checkstyle.location>${maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory}/etc/checkstyle</checkstyle.location>
 		<checkstyle.suppressions.file>
 			${checkstyle.location}/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
 		</checkstyle.suppressions.file>