Kyle Ensley

CEEAA Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2021

For extraordinary mission enabling service to the Coast Guard, its missions and our nation through leadership within the Civil Engineering and Facility Engineering communities; and for delivering field level engineering design, maintenance, environmental compliance and emergency management support for over a decade to enable the Coast Guard’s growing national security, stewardship and safety missions in the central and western Pacific.

Biography

Lieutenant Commander Kyle Ensley assumed the duties as Commanding Officer of U.S. Coast Guard Civil Engineering Unit (CEU) Honolulu in June 2019.  In that position, he leads a team of engineers in executing the Coast Guard’s civil and environmental engineering programs in support of Coast Guard facilities across Oceania from the Mariana Islands to Hawaii and American Samoa.  CEU Honolulu propels the Coast Guard’s strategy in the Pacific, by optimizing its diverse $750M facility portfolio which includes operational aviation and waterfront facilities as well as far-flung communications and navigation systems.  

Ensley is a licensed Civil Engineer in the State of Florida, educated in Civil Engineering at the Coast Guard Academy and University of Illinois.  More recently, he earned his Masters in Arts in Defense and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in 2020.

Ensley is a career engineer, having held four other engineering positions with the Coast Guard in Rhode Island, Florida and Alaska.  He loves life in Hawaii with his wife Christina, an educator, and two children: Allison and George.  Hailing from Texas, Ensley is fortunate to have met Christina while studying at the University of Illinois.