Easy peasy

When it can be a quest the Engineering part is either the object or the reason we have to take a risky job for large payout
The Dee is an older ship so there can also be frame and hull issues major or minor as rp the lower ranked of these slice of life aboard a ship.
Like most large heavy machines she will always need repairs caused by age an environments, the Sandstorm a prime example mentioned in the Capt. post

As an academy Pilot Anxi can serve as a lower rank Engineering type being educated in engineering 101, a real pilots understands their ship but she isn't a mechanic. She is small, flexible, dexterous, an doesn't have claustrophobia so useful in the tight spaces aboard Dauntless.
Tossing the last out there cause she loves to help keep her ship tight