Career
He is currently a coach at Thorniewood United in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region after leaving Queen of the South by mutual consent on 10 January 2012. Hearts & Stenhousemuir McKenzie started his career with Heart of Midlothian, signing his first contract in 1993. He did not experience any first team football until he went on a year-long loan at Stenhousemuir in the 1995-1996 season.
McKenzie returned to Hearts and played as an understudy to, among others, Gilles Rousset and Antti Niemi.
He was never able to establish himself permanently in the first team making 52 starts over 10 years at the Tynecastle club Livingston & Dunfermline Athletic McKenzie moved from Hearts to Livingston in 2003.
McKenzie appeared 119 times during his 3-and-a-half-year spell in West Lothian. Despite McKenzie"s best efforts, the club was relegated after several years of struggle, following the 2005-2006 season.
In July 2006, McKenzie accepted a contract with Dunfermline Athletic, making his debut against former club Hearts later that month.
In the January 2008, McKenzie was released from his contract with Dunfermline after sustaining a bad injury to his back. In August 2008 it was announced that McKenzie had re-signed for his former club Livingston on a three-year-deal. Queen of the South Dumfries club Queen of the South announced on 1 June 2010 that he had signed on a two-year contract as had fellow goalkeeper Ross Hyslop.
On 18 July 2010 McKenzie sustained a torn cruciate in the pre season testimonial game for Jim Thomson against Rangers at Palmerston Park.
The severity of the injury merited Queens temporarily signing Lee Robinson to provide additional goalkeeping resource to the supplement David Hutton due to McKenzie"s projected prolonged absence. At the start of the 2011-2012 season and Hutton"s departure, McKenzie was unable to establish himself ahead of the returning Robinson.
The club announced McKenzie"s departure from Palmerston Park on 10 January 2012 by mutual consent. McKenzie joined the coaching staff of Junior side Thorniewood United in the summer of 2014.
