diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/services/console_consumer.py b/tests/kafkatest/services/console_consumer.py
index 3aeed906b1d84..5fd471217ec8c 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/services/console_consumer.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/services/console_consumer.py
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ def _worker(self, idx, node):
         consumer_output = node.account.ssh_capture(cmd, allow_fail=False)
 
         with self.lock:
-            self._init_jmx_attributes()
             self.logger.debug("collecting following jmx objects: %s", self.jmx_object_names)
             self.start_jmx_tool(idx, node)
 
@@ -292,28 +291,3 @@ def clean_node(self, node):
 
     def java_class_name(self):
         return "ConsoleConsumer"
-
-    def has_partitions_assigned(self, node):
-        if self.new_consumer is False:
-            return False
-        idx = self.idx(node)
-        with self.lock:
-            self._init_jmx_attributes()
-            self.start_jmx_tool(idx, node)
-            self.read_jmx_output(idx, node)
-        if not self.assigned_partitions_jmx_attr in self.maximum_jmx_value:
-            return False
-        self.logger.debug("Number of partitions assigned %f" % self.maximum_jmx_value[self.assigned_partitions_jmx_attr])
-        return self.maximum_jmx_value[self.assigned_partitions_jmx_attr] > 0.0
-
-    def _init_jmx_attributes(self):
-        # Must hold lock
-        if self.new_consumer:
-            # We use a flag to track whether we're using this automatically generated ID because the service could be
-            # restarted multiple times and the client ID may be changed.
-            if getattr(self, '_automatic_metrics', False) or not self.jmx_object_names:
-                self._automatic_metrics = True
-                self.jmx_object_names = ["kafka.consumer:type=consumer-coordinator-metrics,client-id=%s" % self.client_id]
-                self.jmx_attributes = ["assigned-partitions"]
-                self.assigned_partitions_jmx_attr = "kafka.consumer:type=consumer-coordinator-metrics,client-id=%s:assigned-partitions" % self.client_id
-
diff --git a/tests/kafkatest/tests/produce_consume_validate.py b/tests/kafkatest/tests/produce_consume_validate.py
index d915524e69576..22aa096db0320 100644
--- a/tests/kafkatest/tests/produce_consume_validate.py
+++ b/tests/kafkatest/tests/produce_consume_validate.py
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 
 from kafkatest.utils import validate_delivery
 
-import time
-
 class ProduceConsumeValidateTest(Test):
     """This class provides a shared template for tests which follow the common pattern of:
 
@@ -56,20 +54,10 @@ def start_producer_and_consumer(self):
         if (self.consumer_init_timeout_sec > 0):
             self.logger.debug("Waiting %ds for the consumer to initialize.",
                               self.consumer_init_timeout_sec)
-            start = int(time.time())
             wait_until(lambda: self.consumer.alive(self.consumer.nodes[0]) is True,
                        timeout_sec=self.consumer_init_timeout_sec,
                        err_msg="Consumer process took more than %d s to fork" %\
                        self.consumer_init_timeout_sec)
-            end = int(time.time())
-            remaining_time = self.consumer_init_timeout_sec - (end - start)
-            if remaining_time < 0 :
-                remaining_time = 0
-            if self.consumer.new_consumer:
-                wait_until(lambda: self.consumer.has_partitions_assigned(self.consumer.nodes[0]) is True,
-                           timeout_sec=remaining_time,
-                           err_msg="Consumer process took more than %d s to have partitions assigned" %\
-                           remaining_time)
 
         self.producer.start()
         wait_until(lambda: self.producer.num_acked > 5,